xins

XML Interface for Network Services

A Java Framework to create remote APIs

Description:

• XINS is a web application framework.
• XINS is designed to be able to create web applications based on defined specifications.
• XINS is based on a simple way to send requests (using URLs) and handle result (Simple XML format).
• XINS generates a set of HTML pages from the specification and some forms to test the application.
• XINS generates Java code to invoke the web application and to develop it.
• XINS generates WSDL, OpenDocument format, unit tests and stubs.
• XINS also detects if the parameters are conform to the specification.
• XINS includes concepts like load balancing, fail over, logging, security, properties and statistics.
• XINS accepts a lot of protocols: REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, Front-end Framework, ....

Documentation:

• XINS User Guide in HTML and PDF.
• XINS protocol in HTML and PDF.
• Javadoc.
• Logdoc for the client, common and server.
• Last changes, COPYRIGHT.

Other projects:

• XINS documentation Source code for the documentation
• XINS examples Examples of API's client and server side.
• XINS GUI User interface for creating and viewing API's

Quick start:

If you have chosen "Compile and run demo" with the Windows installer, you can directly go to the specdocs (https://www.xins.org/demo/xins-project/build/specdocs/myproject/index.html)

• Check that the Java Development Kit and Apache Ant are properly installed.
• Set the XINS_HOME environment variable to the installed xins directory.
• Add %XINS_HOME%\bin to your PATH environment variable.
• In the demo\xins-projects directory execute xins specdocs-myproject to generated the HTML pages containing the specification and the test forms.
• Compile and run the API with xins -Dorg.xins.server.config=..\xins.properties run-myproject
• Go to the web page demo\xins-project\build\specdocs\myproject\index.html More detailed information can be found in the documentation.

Links:

• Web site.
• Online demo.
• Download.