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From: Donald Woods <dwoods@apache.org>
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The TranQL project is using a SVN repo now (their website was never 
updated...)

The different TranQL components can be found under -
	http://svn.codehaus.org/tranql/


-Donald

Simon Aquilina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to bring this up again. I read most of the connector specification 
> and I feel I understand better the concepts. I therefore tried to 
> download tranql source code to have the source code of an outbound 
> connector. However it seems that the cvs repository for this does not 
> work since my cvs client is telling me that the host could not be found. 
> Does anyone know from where I can download examples of inbound and 
> outbound connectors?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Simon J.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: david_jencks@yahoo.com
> To: user@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Re: J2EE Connector 1.5 Specification
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:09:33 -0700
> 
> 
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Simon Aquilina wrote:
> 
>     Hi Juergen,
> 
>     Thanks for your quick reply. That is very similar to what I want to
>     try and achieve and the concept is very similar to the one I was
>     trying to achieve on Tomcat! Is there something like this provided
>     by the Apache Software Foundation? 
> 
> 
> Based on the level of writing in the documentation I would be careful 
> using txconnect. I only looked at the documentation for a couple 
> minutes.  While I did not see any of the glaring errors I usually find 
> in j2ca projects it looks to me as if there were quite a few misleading 
> statements.
> 
> If you are looking for a framework for building outbound j2ca 
> connectors, there is also the codehaus tranql project which is under asl 
> 2.0.  Geronimo ships with the tranql db adapters to provide jdbc 
> connectivity.
> 
> However, based on your original attempt to do something related to a 
> tomcat http connector I really doubt you are interested in an outbound 
> connector, which is designed to let your server program connect to other 
> programs such as a database, SAP, CICS, etc as a client.
> 
> You might possibly be interested in a j2ca inbound connector.  The 
> standard example of these is a jms implementation supplying messages to 
> mdbs.
> 
> Perhaps you could explain what you are trying to do:
> 
> - what the source of messages is
> - what transport and protocol they travel over
> - what the consumer of the messages is
> - whether the communication is synchronous (message receiver sends a 
> reply back to the message sender) or asynchronous (no reply to messages, 
> such as with MOM or jms)
> - which role(s) your server program will be playing
> - how many clients, servers, and messages you want to handle
> 
> thanks
> david jencks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Regards,
>     Simon J.* *
> 
>     >  Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:04:34 +0200
>     >  From: weberjn@gmail.com <mailto:weberjn@gmail.com>
>     >  To: user@geronimo.apache.org <mailto:user@geronimo.apache.org>
>     >  Subject: Re: J2EE Connector 1.5 Specification
>     > 
>     >  Have a look at http://txconnect.sourceforge.net/
>     >  it might make your job a lot easier.
>     > 
>     >  On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Simon Aquilina
>     <sim085@hotmail.com <mailto:sim085@hotmail.com>> wrote:
>     >  > Hi,
>     >  >
>     >  > I am interested in developing a custom connector for Geronimo so
>     that the
>     >  > latter can communicate using a protocol different then Http. I
>     had started a
>     >  > similar project on Tomcat, however I then realised that Tomcat
>     treats all
>     >  > requests as Http requests internally.
>     >  >
>     >  > I therefore decided to focus my energy on Geronimo since this is
>     a real
>     >  > application server and J2EE certified.
>     >  >
>     >  > I thought that first of all I should read the J2EE Connector 1.5
>     >  > Specification. Is this the right place to start? Or Geronimo has
>     some other
>     >  > documentation which I should consider? I have tried the
>     Documentation
>     >  > section to see what is available but (like in the case of
>     Tomcat) I did not
>     >  > find much related to connectors.
>     >  >
>     >  > Also please do correct me if I say anything stupid. I am not an
>     expert
>     >  > programmer nor do I know how Geronimo works inside out. However
>     I am willing
>     >  > to do an effort and learn and am willing to put as much time as
>     needed to
>     >  > learn things correctly.
>     >  >
>     >  > Thanks and Regards,
>     >  > Simon J.
>     >  >
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