XML Interface for Network Services (XINS) is an open source
Open source
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technology for definition and implementation of internet applications, which enforces a specification-oriented approach.
Specification-oriented approach
The specification-oriented approach is at the heart of XINS:
first specifications need to be written;
then documentation and code is generated from these specifications;
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protocol (called the XINS Standard Calling Convention), compatible with web browsers (HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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A tool for generating human-readable documentation, from the specifications.
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-based technology for logging (called Logdoc), offering a specification format, internationalization of log messages, generation of HTML documentation and generation of code.
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library for calling XINS functions, the XINS/Java Client Framework; in xins-client.jar.
A server-side container for Java-based XINS API implementations, the XINS/Java Server Framework; in xins-server.jar. This is like a servlet container for XINS APIs.
A Java library with some common functionality, used by both the XINS/Java Client Framework and the XINS/Java Server Framework: the XINS/Java Common Library, in xins-common.jar.
An introductory tutorial called the XINS Primer takes the reader by the hand with easy-to-follow steps to perform, with screenshots.
Since version 1.3.0, the XINS/Java Server Framework supports not only POX-style calls, but also SOAP
SOAP
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/UDDI/etc. the format is extremely simple. There are specifications for projects, environment lists, APIs, functions, types and error codes.
Below is an example of a XINS project definition.
Here is an example of a specification of an environment list:
An example of an API specification file:
My first XINS API
An example of a function definition:
Greets the indicated person.
The name of the person to be greeted.
RPC protocol
The XINS Standard Calling Convention is a simple HTTP-based RPC protocol. Input consists of HTTP parameters, while output is an XML document. This approach makes it compatible with plain Web browsers.
There are no known products that provide an integrated approach to specification-oriented development, similar to XINS. However, there are several frameworks and libraries that provide functionality similar to individual parts of XINS, including:
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is a Java SOAP framework for development and consumption of web services.Unlike earlier similar products, such as Apache Axis 1.x that use in-memory tree models for XML, XFire uses StAX resulting in better performance..Apache Axis2 also uses StAX....
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Hessian Web Service Protocol: Binary alternative to the XINS Standard Calling Convention.
