Re: Web services - newbie

From: Herman Timmermans (timmermansdot.hermanat_at_skynet.be)
Date: 12/22/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:40:29 +0100

Sam wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I need to investigate wether it is possible to develop a Web Service
> that acts as an interface to a fortran application... I''ll try to
> make myself a little bit clearer
>
> I have a fortran application. I want to run it on a server and make us
> of the Web Services technology to pass parameters to this fortran
> application from clients sitting all over the world.
>
> Is this possible, and could anyone give me some pointers as to where I
> need to start looking. I'm not completely new to JAVA, but it's been a
> while. And as you can tell, I am new to the whole "Web services" idea.
>
> Thanks.

Hi Sam,
from a high-level view, I would say you could do this with Java. This is
the idea behind J2EE architecture. Your clients will probable be running a
browser based application that accesses, using standard http protocol,
JSP's/Servlets on a remote central webserver. The JSP/Servlet will then be
resonsible to authenticate/validate whatever parameters that needs to be
forwarded to your Fortran program. The communication between the Java
based JSp/Servlet and the Fortran application will be done with CORBA (
Common Object Request Broker Architecture). You will need to make sure
that your Fortran application implements CORBA as well. this is however
not so straigth forward as it could be with other languages like
C,C++,Ada,Smalltalk, ....as there is no proposed mapping between CORBA IDL
t o Fortran, and wyou will to write some wrappers to achieve this. Have a
look at Google (Fortran, CORBA, IDL)

Best regards,
Herman 

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