[cddlm] A new endpoint!

[Steve Loughran]

I am pleased to announce the availability of the HP CDDLM endpoint, 
public beta
release

The URL for the portal is :-
http://deployapi.iseran.com:8080/alpine/portal/

It is visible through the (three) firewalls, and has been tested remotely.
A GET will return a short note confirming the endpoint's existence. Make 
sure
you have the trailing / as the servlet is unforgiving. If the connection 
is refused, the endpoint is probably down.

Notes
-this is a new SOAP stack with its own WSA and WSRF implementation. It only
  implements the subset we need, and those are not adequately interop 
tested.
  please mail your results to the group or direct to me.

-deployment is not working. I will find out why next week, but will then
  have to actually implement security on the endpoint before deploying a 
fixed
  version

-System:addFile is not finished, and when it is it will initially only 
support
inline (base 64) content, not attachments. MTOM Is not on the todo list.


-WS-Notification has not even begun; I dont even implement the 
properties that
  list supported topics. Frankly, I'm not overwhelmingly motivated to 
implement
  WS-N.

-It's hosted on a laptop on the WLAN somewhere in my house. It needs more
  memory. Please be gentle with it :)


Monday in the UK is a holiday (May 1st, Socialist Unity Day!), so there 
is no
likelihood of any changes to the stack being made before Tuesday. I'll field
basic interop problems first (namespaces, WSA headers, SOAPAction), then 
worry
about

-better fault reporting
-automating a checkout, rebuild and redeploy early every morning.

-testing Alpine's WSA impl. against the .NET 2.0 endpoints

-making the server-side logs public by logging to log4j's HTML logger and
  serving those pages up somewhere.

-have the server host the deployapi tests for our client and run them 
against
  all public stacks, again serving the data up for browsing.

Clearly not all of these can be achieved in the finite time before 
GGF17, but we
should be able to make progress along both the interop and functionality
axes. Now if you'll excuse me, I have an extended weekend to attend to.

Steve