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how hard is adding a basic web services interface to an existing java server application without having to turn it into a .war, or embedding a small web server like jetty?
say, xml-rpc instead of more modern approaches, if it helps.
if not too hard, can you suggest a starting point?
thank you in advance 🙂
It sounds like you’re asking for the impossible: expose an HTTP service without plugging into or embedding an HTTP server!
Unless you want to reimplement what Jetty already does, I’d reccommend using Jetty as a library. That way you don’t need to conform to the more awkward aspects of the Servlet spec. E.g. your servlets can have real constructors with parameters.
There is also a simple HTTP server implementation in JDK 6, but it’s in the com.sun namespace so I’d avoid it for production code.