A POJO connector would allow Intalio|BPMS users to integrate visually a java component selected from a jar.
The visual connector in Designer will outline the methods that can be used from the classes available in the jar.

Please discuss here about the requirements.

Post edited by: arnaud, at: 2006/04/11 01:08

Hi. What is the status here? I can see it's "in discussion" but I also see 2006, so something surely must have happened to this, I guess, much sought after feature.

Or is creating a webservice of pojo classes the way to go?

Sincerely,

Fredrik Medby Hagen

Hi Fredrik,

Yes you are right, for the moment, the way to do it is creating a webService out of the POJO and import its wsdl into designer. A very interesting and fairly simple way to do it would be by using the "Axis2 POJO web services" feature.
You may also be interested in using the AXIS WTP tools , which are a bit simpler to use.
You will find the necessary documentations here: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_1/pojoguide.html l. and from here
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/tutorials/BottomUpAxis2WebService/bu_tutorial.html

This is a good solution, if you have to create few POJOs that you don't need to modify. But if you plan on deploying a dozen of POJOs, that you need to maintain and modify on continuous bases, you will quickly notice that this can be really time consuming and not practical at all.

This is where this feature become extremely useful:
Instead of creating/modifying the POJO, creating a service that wraps your POJO, deploying it, extracting the wsdl and importing it into designer, you will only focus on creating/modifying your POJO, and everything else will be automatically managed by the POJO connector. The service will be automatically generated, and you can use it with a simple drag and drop directly from designer.

Thanks for your interest,
Ihab