Client Request/Response Context

Question

I'm new to Weblogic Integration and have a question regarding client response action.
I've seen an example of a quick workflow where the webpage calls the process
and gets a response back. In essence the workflow is synchronous.
Now I want to include a long running process, using Worklists and involving many
different actors. During the worklist task acceptance I want to get some feedback
from the user. My questions is what context does the Client Request/Response
execute in. The example in the docs shows the worklist application. Is this
absolutely required? How about a client response to a portlet.
Thanks,
noah

Answer 1

One of the Certification mandates logging the remote client IP AND PORT for each log-event.
I cannot pass these from GUI client because the user may
be on a private network. This calls for capturing the IP and PORT at GUI server end.
Capturing remote IP is simple as SOAP library exposes the request object from which the IP can be obtained.
The dificult part is to capture port. I addressed this problem by introducing a
new Tomcat Service Engine, CSMServiceEngine. This engine has access to the underneath socket using which
i obtain the client port and pass it across to SOAP layer as a x-csm-client-port HTTP theader.
I have a custom SOAP provider, CSMSoapSPI, which obtains the port using the above x-header and the
client IP from its request object. THese are done only for 'login' task and hence i published a new
SOAP service: LoginCommand.
But bcoz of upgradation of tomcat from 4.0 to 5.0.28 the invoke method in the StandardEngine(which was initially extended by class i posted) is made final with JDK 1.5 and i can no longer use the StandardEngine. Hence i tried with the Valve class.But with no luck.
Hope this answers ur question