Dirty soap
With the usual amount of flatulent fanfare, James Strachan launches another toy project. This time, it’s in the guise of…something to do with soap.
Now, this happened to be somewhat interesting for me because I’m sick of being shackled to GLUE for my soapy needs, given that it’s nigh on impossible to download the latest version these days (thank you webmethods for proving that despite my last run-in with you with your ‘enterprise MOM’ activeworks 6 years ago, you’re still a bunch of chozgobblers). Now Graham Glass might be the prettiest girl in javaland, but he basically bent over the java community and stuck it to them where it hurt.
Of course, the more drooly amongst you will suggest axis. You lot aren’t even worth spitting on, so let’s move on briskly.
Enter activesoap, a potentially up to date, well maintained, active project that might well give us the soap we need for our..hmm. What could one use soap for? Well, let’s say soapy titwanks, for the sake of argument.
Where does one start? activesoap apparently lets you implement soap intermediaries. What the poo are those? activesoap also has some kind of dodgy relationship going on with xmlbeans. xmlbeans are from BEA, what do they have to do with soap? Nary a link or explanation in sight!
Of course, to keep in the grand tradition of all amateur java soap attempts, there was, until a day or two ago, absolutely no mention of how this beast might be used client-side. The current example involves some of the now obligatory arm waving and xmlbean self-flagellation.
Given how the documentation is mostly nonsensical for anyone other than our beloved James, one might think that the ‘how it works’ link might shed some light on this little misfit. Alas, another hope dashed. We’re insulted even further with even more nonsense.
Speaking of links, why oh why do the title links on the left hand nav underline when you hover over them, yet are doggedly unclickable? Have you people learnt nothing about web pages since 1996? Do consistent predicable UI’s offend you? Is surprising your hapless users what you get your jollies off to?
I had initially intended on actually trying this pile of dogshit and maybe even using it. The website however has cured me of all such urges for now. To add insult to injury, this festering pile of unsavoury droppings is built using our favourite whipping boy, maven. Oh how I miss the days when OSS projects had a simple ‘javadocs’ link right on the homepage.
James, you’re a smart chap (despite the very debilitating handicap of having the attention span of a guppy), but please, please, when you feel like writing docs, do not think of it as a braindump, and target the damn thing at other people, not yourself.
October 1st, 2004 at 11:24 pm
Have you looked at XFire yet? It might have a spot in this very same bile… http://xfire.codehaus.org/
October 1st, 2004 at 11:52 pm
Oh, come on. James is groovy. He doesn’t need to document anything.
October 2nd, 2004 at 4:01 am
The reason the headers highlight like links when they aren’t is because…. that’s what maven does and the stylesheets were originally copied from maven.
October 2nd, 2004 at 8:42 am
Try Systinet: http://www.systinet.com/products/java_ws
October 2nd, 2004 at 9:32 am
hani had a nighmare where he was in some prision, and during the grupal genitalia pulling convict bath, he bented to get his soap, that slipped in the floor.
Now he has a prejudice towards every soap. I’ve heard that in his next project, he’ll be using shampoo to connect the dimwits parties.
October 3rd, 2004 at 6:29 am
The underline problem exists because the author of the CSS didn’t appreciate the difference between a:hover and :link:hover.
October 3rd, 2004 at 6:55 am
Go on, let’s have a bile about http://www.1060.org‘s REST microkernel.
October 3rd, 2004 at 4:50 pm
… i’ll just say that all active* projects are poo
October 4th, 2004 at 2:04 am
News Flash: Does this bile seem a little mechanical to you?
In fact, Hani has confessed that he no longer has the heat to write this blog. Instead he makes use of a nifty Jython script to auto-generate and publish the occasional column. This leaves him more time for his favourite passtimes: reading TSS, committing changes to XDoclet and self-fellatio.
October 4th, 2004 at 3:21 am
Hani, there’s a JavaDocs link on the top right Nav bar. I’ve added a link to the left hand Nav bar too, just for you darling!
I’ll freely admit the documentation is completely pants – though the project is barely a week old. There’s plenty of support for XStream as the XML < -> Java marshalling layer too, so its not just some BEA conspiracy now; its BEA + Joe :)
BTW if you’ve trouble clicking on links, its probably Bobs Confluenza thang which slurps content out of the Confluence wiki and renders it as static HTML in case Confluence is borked.
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/AWS/Navigation
The magic trick to get Confluenza to work properly appears to be append ?refresh=1 to the URL and things tend to render OK. e.g.
http://activesoap.codehaus.org/?refresh=1
Good eh? :)
October 4th, 2004 at 3:01 pm
I think “what the poo are intermediaries” comes from “what the poo is SOAP MEP”. Part of the blame should be w3 IMHO…
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-soap12-part1-20030624/#msgexchngmdl
Try not to bend over too far when picking up your “Soap” Hani. ;)
October 5th, 2004 at 5:38 am
whats wrong with axis?
October 11th, 2004 at 10:54 pm
SOAP was a bad idea in the first place. Fight against it rather than wasting your time with the defective tools.
December 13th, 2004 at 3:00 pm
I love writing software and I am glad I found something so enjoyable to do during my short life on this small planet. I really like the ideas behind Groovy, and I admire the spunk to VOLUNTEER to make something like it. If I didn’t, I’d go somewhere else and talk about something else.
Hani, who must have suffered some unspeakable event(s) in his childhood, insists on publishing such hateful, nasty, brain-numbing cynicism. I have no time for this. I have work to do. Hani should seek counseling and do the world a favor.
I love programming. Is this conversation worth our time? Live is too short. I’ll see some of you in some other blog. ba bye.
October 27th, 2005 at 4:49 pm
i am profoundly deaf, by deafcool but i am employed for “CLEAN TOLIET” dirty fresh toliet i need to work for the wage of sh*t ok what i favorite watch UFC but i am false not true fight but i am fatty and bobby man, i found p910 i was sell from lee but i buy for holiday ticket “CAN’T AFFORD TURKEY HOLIDAY” profit for money i use buy turkey ok i am here doggy road man town what is f%7k yasar’s dolishman service watch nothing soap man
November 20th, 2005 at 10:28 am
do you like to eat lots of poo? i do call me for a good time of poo eating contests
December 24th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
it is me yasar majeed, I been went to holiday in Turkey so I have got found mobile p910i in bus stop so I sell that £150 profit and my girlfriend name mumtaz’arse she gave me money borrow I went to holiday shitty man nothing do in turkey I find a beautiful women sex more than mumtaz’s dumb like fat cow bit so I have very stinky wet like strong of gorilla man hard of my arse ok and what about there let me know ok