web service in struts

[Jomy George]

hi friends,

i have two implement a few webservice in a new java server.
i am planning to do it using struts framework.
Is there any special features available for webservice creation in struts ?

can anyone give me an example link?

thanks in advance...

[Joe Ess]

It depends on what your requirements are. Struts supports REST and JSON. You can return XML instead of HTML from your actions.

[Jomy George]

thanks jos,

so can i use my action class to process the request and return an xml string?
is there a need to add any special package for webservice?

[Joe Ess]

Jomy George wrote:so can i use my action class to process the request and return an xml string?

Struts is built on Servlets, which is built on CGI which is built on HTTP which can transport any file type.

Jomy George wrote:
is there a need to add any special package for webservice?

That depends on what you mean by "webservice".
I've already pointed you to the REST and JSON plugins. What other technologies are you looking at?

[Jomy George]

jos i have no idea about where to start.
i just need to create some webservice in my server which communicate via xml

i am planning to handle this via soap request and response...