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This is required + for building the REST Service extension and for hosting and running REST services. + </TD> + </TR> + <TR CLASS="a"> + <TD>libcurl version 7.15 or higher</TD> + <TD> + <A HREF="http://curl.haxx.se/download.html" + TARGET="_blank">http://curl.haxx.se/download.html</A><BR/> + Please download and follow the installation instructions. This is required + for building the REST Reference extension and for calling REST references.<BR/> + On Windows, the extension was developed and tested against the "Win32 - MSVC 7.15.1 devel" + library provided by Chris Drake. On Linux the libcurl libraries were built from + the 7.16.1 source. On Mac OS X the library was downloaded, built and installed via the + standard "port" command. + </TD> + </TR> + </TBODY> + </TABLE> + </DIV> + + <DIV CLASS="section"> + <A NAME="install"><H2>Installing the Tuscany SCA REST Extension</H2></A> + <A NAME="linuxbin"><H3>Getting the Tuscany SCA REST Extension working with the binary release on Linux and Mac OS X</H3></A> + <OL> + <LI>Follow the <A HREF="#deploy">deployment steps</A> below to ensure the HTTPD server + invokes Tuscany when it receives an appropriate HTTP request</LI> + <LI>Ensure the libcurl and HTTPD libraries are available on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable on Linux and + the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable on Mac OS X</LI> + </OL> + <A NAME="linuxsrc"><H3>Getting the Tuscany SCA REST Extension working with the source release on Linux and Mac OS X</H3></A> + <OL> + <LI>You will need the Tuscany SCA and SDO libraries - follow the instructions + <A HREF="../GettingStarted.html">here</A> to build the SCA libraries and default extensions</LI> + <LI>The following environment variables are required: + <UL> + <LI>TUSCANY_SCACPP=<path to built Tuscany SCA> + <LI>TUSCANY_SDOCPP=<path to installed Tuscany SDO> + <LI>APR_INCLUDE=<path to APR includes></LI> + <LI>HTTPD_INCLUDE=<path to HTTPD includes><BR/> + Note: If you are using a default installation of HTTPD these are usually:<BR/> + APR_INCLUDE=/usr/include/apr-1<BR/> + HTTPD_INCLUDE=/usr/include/httpd</LI> + <LI>CURL_INCLUDE=<path to libcurl includes></LI> + <LI>CURL_LIB<path to libcurl libraries><BR/> + Note: If you are using a default installation of libcurl these are usually:<BR/> + CURL_INCLUDE=/usr/include/curl<BR/> + CURL_LIB=/usr/lib</LI> + </UL></LI> + <LI>Build the REST source only with the following command sequence: + <UL> + <LI>cd <tuscany_sca_install_dir></LI> + <LI>./configure --prefix=$TUSCANY_SCACPP --enable-restbinding --enable-cpp=no --enable-wsbinding=no</LI> + <LI>make</LI> + <LI>make install</LI> + </UL> + NOTE: If you don't provide a --prefix configure option, it will by default install into + /usr/local/tuscany/sca</LI> + </OL> + + <A NAME="winbin"><H3>Getting the Tuscany SCA REST Extension working with the binary release on Windows</H3></A> + <OL> + <LI>Follow the <A HREF="#deploy">deployment steps</A> below to ensure the HTTPD server + invokes Tuscany when it receives an appropriate HTTP request</LI> + <LI>Ensure the libcurl and HTTPD libraries are available on the PATH environment variable</LI> + </OL> + <A NAME="winsrc"><H3>Getting the Tuscany SCA REST Extension working with the source release on Windows</H3></A> + <OL> + <LI>Unzip the supplied source zip file</LI> + <LI>The following environment variables are required: + <UL> + <LI>TUSCANY_SCACPP=<path to built Tuscany SCA> + <LI>TUSCANY_SDOCPP=<path to installed Tuscany SDO> + <LI>HTTPD_HOME=<path to installed HTTPD server> + <LI>LIBCURL_HOME=<path to installed libcurl libraries> + </UL></LI> + <LI>You must have set up the environment for Microsoft Visual C++ tools. The build command + will call vcvars32 to set the environment. Ensure the directory containing this is on your path. + This will be where you installed the compiler.</LI> + <LI>Build the source: + <UL> + <LI>cd <to where you unzipped the source></LI> + <LI>build</LI> + </UL> + This will build all the projects and put the required output into the 'deploy' directory<BR/><BR/> + Alternatively, open the workspace at <tuscany_sca_install_dir>/projects/tuscany_sca/tuscany_sca.dsw + in Visual Studio 6 or at at <tuscany_sca_install_dir>/projectsvc7/tuscany_sca/tuscany_sca.sln + in Visual Studio 7.1 - you can build projects individually + or build the samples to rebuild all the projects</LI> + </OL> + </DIV> + + + <DIV CLASS="section"> + <A NAME="deploy"><H2>Deploying the Tuscany REST Service extension to the HTTPD server</H2></A> + <P>The following samples demonstrate use of the REST extension:</P> + <UL> + <LI><A HREF="../samples/RestCalculator/README.html">RestCalculator</A></LI> + <LI><A HREF="../samples/RestCustomer/README.html">RestCustomer</A></LI> + <LI><A HREF="../samples/RestYahoo/README.html">RestYahoo</A></LI> + <LI><A HREF="../samples/AlertAggregator/README.html">AlertAggregator</A></LI> + </UL> + <P>Each of these samples generate a set of configuration files for the HTTPD server. Use the startserver + script that comes with each sample to generate the files and start the server with the REST Service + extension enabled. The instructions below detail the information that is provided in these configuration + files.</P> + <OL> + <LI>On Windows, load the sca_rest_module into HTTPD by adding the following line to the conf/httpd.conf file: +<PRE>LoadModule sca_rest_module <path to installed Tuscany SCA>/extensions/rest/service/bin/tuscany_sca_mod_rest.dll</PRE> + On Linux, use the following line: +<PRE>LoadModule sca_rest_module <path to installed Tuscany SCA>/extensions/rest/service/lib/libtuscany_sca_mod_rest.so</PRE> + On Mac OS X, use the following line: +<PRE>LoadModule sca_rest_module <path to installed Tuscany SCA>/extensions/rest/service/lib/libtuscany_sca_mod_rest.dylib</PRE> + </LI> + <LI>Set a TuscanyHome directive to the installation of Tuscany SCA Native: +<PRE>TuscanyHome <path to installed Tuscany SCA></PRE> + </LI> + <LI>Create a Location directive for the URL to be used and set the sca_rest_module as the handler to + be invoked when requests for the location are received. Also set the TuscanyRoot directive for + this Location, set to the location of the SCA application to be invoked: +<PRE> +<Location /rest> + SetHandler sca_rest_module + TuscanyRoot <path to installed Tuscany SCA>/samples/RestCalculator/deploy/ +</Location> +</PRE> + The above example will mean that calls to http://myserver/rest will be handled by Tuscany SCA Native + and configured to invoke the RestCalculator sample application. + </LI> + </OL> + </DIV> + + <DIV CLASS="section"> + <A NAME="resource"><H2>Tuscany REST Extension Resource Pattern</H2></A> + <P>If the SCA service or reference uses an <interface.rest> interface, CRUD + (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) methods are mapped to HTTP verbs to access resource + representations as follows:</P> + <UL> + <LI>uri = create(resource)<BR/> + HTTP POST <binding-uri> + an XML element representing the resource to create<BR/> + Returns Location header containing the uri of the created resource</LI> + <LI>resource = retrieve()<BR/> + HTTP GET <binding-uri><BR/> + Returns an XML element representing the REST resource</LI> + <LI>resource = retrieve(uri, parm-value-1, parm-value-n)<BR/> + HTTP GET uri/parm-value-1/parm-value-n<BR/> + or if uri ends with a '?':<BR/> + HTTP GET uri?parm-name-1=parm-value1&parm-name-n=parm-value-n<BR/> + Returns an XML element representing the REST resource</LI> + <LI>update(resource)<BR/> + HTTP PUT <binding-uri> + an XML element representing the updated resource</LI> + <LI>update(uri, parm-1, parm-n, resource)<BR/> + HTTP PUT uri/parm-value-1/parm-value-n + an XML element representing the updated resource<BR/> + or if uri ends with a '?':<BR/> + HTTP PUT uri?parm-name-1=parm-value1&parm-name-n=parm-value-n + an XML element representing the updated resource</LI> + <LI>delete()<BR/> + HTTP DELETE <binding-uri></LI> + <LI>delete(uri, parm-1, parm-n)<BR/> + HTTP DELETE uri/parm-value-1/parm-value-n<BR/> + or if uri ends with a '?':<BR/> + HTTP DELETE uri?parm-name-1=parm-value1&parm-name-n=parm-value-n</LI> + </UL> + <P>In this mode, HTTP return codes are used almost as described in the Atom spec. Also + GET returns etags with the retrieved resource representations to help caching by clients.</P> + </DIV> + + <DIV CLASS="section"> + <A NAME="rpc"><H2>Tuscany REST Extension RPC Pattern</H2></A> + <P>If the SCA service/reference does not use an <interface.rest> interface, then this is + not a real REST pattern, we simply flow method calls over XML / HTTP as follows:</P> + <UL><LI>result = method-abc(parm-1, parm-n) + <UL> + <LI>if single input parameter of complex type:<BR/> + HTTP POST <binding-uri>/method-abc + XML element representing the complex parameter</LI> + <LI>or if multiple parameters including parameters of complex types:<BR/> + HTTP POST <binding-uri>/method-abc + Mime multipart/form-data body containing one parameter per part</LI> + <LI>or if multiple parameters all of simple types:<BR/> + HTTP GET <binding-uri>/method-abc?parm-1-name=parm-1-value&parm-n-name=parm-n-value</LI> + </UL> + Returns an XML element representing the result</LI> + </UL> + </DIV> + + <DIV CLASS="section"> + <A NAME="help"><H2>Getting Help</H2></A> + + <P>First place to look is at the Tuscany FAQ at + <A HREF="http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/faq.html" + TARGET="_blank">http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/faq.html</A> </P> + + <P>Any problem with this release can be reported to the Tuscany + <A HREF="http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/mail-lists.html" + TARGET="_blank">mailing lists</A> or create a JIRA issue at <A HREF="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/Tuscany" + TARGET="_blank">http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/Tuscany</A>.</P> + </DIV> + </DIV> +</DIV> +</BODY> + +</HTML> + |