[opencms-dev] Challange! External Program access to OpenCMS Instance...

[M Butcher]

Implement SOAP or XML-RPC commands and use HTTP(S) for transport?

Matt

ambiesense at gmx.de wrote:

>Hi,
>
>some time ago I posted the question about the possibility to perform the
>following szenario, which I think is quite a challange:
>
>On the Server Tomcat is running with OpenCMS 5.0 inside. Also on the server,
>there is a Java program which accesses this OpenCMS instance through the
>Tomcat servlet engine (or otherwise). The program should be able to access all
>runtime (instance) information like user/usergroup info as well as static info
>like files etc. The program would log in, access files (read/write) do
>administration etc. and log out after finishing its tasks. There could be more
>then one program to access the same instance and work similaniously. These
>programms would work like users simulaniously.
>
>How could this be archived?? 
>
>The only, not tested, possiblity offered at that time was using an apporach
>similar to what the CMSShell is doing. However this approach does not work
>really like a client since it builts a server with all the database connection
>and other ballast. I basically want just an access point to the instance
>though the API. This means basically an access the CMSObject by using normal API
>interface (and not via JSP).
>
>Does somebody has any ideas of how this could be done? Does OpenCMS offer a
>way of doing that?
>
>Any help would be hightly appreciated,
>Ralf  
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