Components of The XINS Technology
Technically, XINS is composed of the following:
- An XML-based specification format for projects, APIs, functions, types and error codes
- A POX-style RPC protocol (called the XINS Standard Calling Convention), compatible with web browsers (HTTP parameters in, XML out).
- A tool for generating human-readable documentation, from the specifications.
- A tool for generating WSDL, from the specifications.
- A Log4J-based technology for logging (called Logdoc), offering a specification format, internationalization of log messages, generation of HTML documentation and generation of code.
- A Java 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 and XML-RPC. And it supports conversion using XSLT. As of version 2.0, it also supports JSON and JSON-RPC.
XINS is open-source and is distributed under the liberal BSD license.
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