One New Web Client

For this week's meeting with Professor Carrera, we made a couple of front ends to demonstrate the extensibility of our framework. The applications show different ways that Municipal Data Objects (Public Art in this case) could be displayed to varying end users.

One of the web clients that we made is a proof of concept of our web service. It is laid out in an archival format, and allows users to search through Public Art objects either by entering an ID or by hitting previous and next buttons. Upon clicking one of the buttons/links, an AJAX request is sent from the .jsp to a servlet (the server-side of the client...yes we know that is kind of confusing). The servlet parses the request and sends a SOAP request to the web service, which in this case is located on the same server as the Client but does not need to be as it is a wholly separate entity. The Web Service is an (proof of concept) application built using the Venice Framework, and thus calls methods in the framework to fulfill the SOAP request. The Web Service then takes the Java objects that it is returned, converts them to XML, and sends them off in a SOAP response to the server-side servlet of the web client. The servlet then parses the XML response and sends out a JSON-encoded AJAX response to the .jsp which displays the results.

This application can be accessed here. Please disregard the absurd loading .gif...it is in the wrong div.