Sure. In the 4.2 version of ESB we're using a version that is based on the original WS-Addressing implementation we developed in Arjuna for the Web Services transactions product back in 2004 and used for interoperability testing with Microsoft, IBM etc. It's based on the 2004 version of WS-A (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-add/)

We have a new version for the next major release of ESB based on the 2006 release of WS-A (tested here http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/testsuite/), but the concepts are pretty much the same (basically you lose ReferenceProperties).

This class is the one people are expected to develop endpoint references (EPRs) against:

http://anonsvn.labs.jboss.com/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/core/rosetta/src/org/jboss/soa/esb/addressing/EPR.java

But this one is the one that does the real work:

http://anonsvn.labs.jboss.com/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/core/rosetta/src/org/jboss/soa/esb/addressing/PortReference.java

BTW, URI would be fine too. EPRs are a superset.

Mark.


On 20 Jun 2007, at 19:08, Scott M Stark wrote:

We use both URLs and URIs in the vfs, but still rely on the URL handler
mechanism for content. There needs to be some mechanism to obtain
content streams and properties/attributes for the endpoint. We should
have a common lib for either URIs or EPRs. Give a pointer to the EPR
code in the ESB codebase.

Mark Little wrote:
How about moving away from URLs to URIs or EPRs (WS-Addressing Endpoint
References)? We use EPRs, which are basically URIs with some additional
meta-data (which can be null if you want). URLs are ok and my JBossESB
5.0 prototype runs on current Remoting and does a mapping from EPR down
to URL when it needs to, but they are pretty limiting. Plus URL doesn't
support SFTP or FTPS.

Mark.


On 19 Jun 2007, at 14:00, Bill Burke wrote:

The URL for JMS would look real ugly too.  New URL protocols are
dangerous too as you may not be able to override the JDK's URL Handler
(because it can only be set once!).  I ran into this problem with
Tomcat 5.


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