[wildfly-dev] EJB over HTTP

[Stuart Douglas]

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Darran Lofthouse <darran.lofthouse at jboss.com
> wrote:

> I wonder how much this should be integrated with the new client that David
> is currently working on, if the two were closely integrated it would make
> it much easier for clients to switch between the two as well as taking
> advantage of all of the new shared configuration.
>

This should be implemented as a transport provider for the HTTP Client, one
of the goals is to be able to use this in place of remoting basically
transparently (just a configuration change).


>
> Server side Elytron will have a full set of HTTP mechanisms so all the
> mechanisms you list will be available going forward.  Would this be used
> for server to server as well or just client to client?  We may end up with
> additional requirements that we already have for native calls regarding
> clients running with multiple identities and the propagation of identities
> from server to server.
>

It could be used for server -> server and client -> server. I think auth
should be based on existing HTTP mechanisms, but I am not sure if something
as simple as hooking up our existing HTTP mechanisms to this will meet all
the use cases.

Stuart


>
> Regards,
> Darran Lofthouse.
>
>
>
> On 04/05/16 06:50, Stuart Douglas wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have started looking into support for service invocation over HTTP.
>> Unlike our existing HTTP upgrade support this will map EJB
>> requests/responses directly to HTTP requests and responses, which should
>> allow it to be used behind existing load balancers.
>>
>> I have started an initial description of the protocol at:
>>
>> https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/wildfly-http-client/blob/master/docs/wire-spec-v1.asciidoc
>>
>> The intention is to follow HTTP semantics as closely as possible.
>> Clustering will be provided in a similar manner to web clustering (i.e.
>> it will require a load balancer, and work in a similar manner to web
>> clustering).
>>
>> There is still plenty work that needs to be done (especially around
>> security), so if anyone has any feedback let me know.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>>
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