Overview

Burlap is a XML over HTTP protocol. To install the Burlap extension, download and copy it to the extensions directory of the Fabric3 runtime. If you are using the iTest plugin, you will need to configure and extensions entry for it and the plugin will download the extension jar automatically. Note that the Hessian extension requires a Servlet container extension. The standalone, web app, and federated runtimes have a servlet container pre-configured.

Note if you are working with the development runtime, you will need to download and install a servlet container extension such as the Jetty extenstion (fabric3-jetty).

Configurion

To use the burlap binding, you will need to specify a url for a bound service or a url for a target service on a reference. For example:

<service name="calculatorService" promote="calculator">
   <burlap:binding.burlap uri="/calculator" />
</service>


<reference name="calculatorReference" promote="calculator/calculatorReference">
   <interface.java interface="calculator.CalculatorService"/>
   <burlap:binding.hessian uri="http://localhost:8181/calculator"/>
</reference>