Netbeans project for WSF/C++

If you are working on WSF/C++ or on your own project using WSF/C++ then it is very easy to develop on Netbeans 6.5 C++ plugin which is a very good ide for C++ development.

Following are the main features that attracted me towards Netbeans/C++ ide.

1. Very good navigation features.
2. Easy to get started
3. No-nonsense user interface with it's intuitive features
4. Feature rich editor(Still nowhere to compare with vi. But generally very good compared to similar ide's)
5. Obtain variable, method list for instances including inherited variable/methods

One of the main caveat I see so far is I could not still find a way to select a file and compile only that file. But considering the many other useful features that come with Netbeans 6.5 C++ ide I could easily ignore it. Besides I still prefer to build and debug using my favourite command line tools vi, gdb and valgrind.

First you need to install Netbeans/C++. If you are on Ubuntu then just do
apt-get install netbeans
Then after starting the ide go to main menu's tools->plugins dialog box and select Available Plugins tab. From there select C/C++ plugin and install it.
Now when you create a new project a C/C++ project option appear.

There are many options that you can use to create a new project. What I did was to create a Netbeans project from existing source. I created the project with an existing Makefile. That means prior to create the project I have already created the makefiles for WSF/C++ project using it's build scripts. I gave source path as the root of my WSF/C++ source tree.

Once I created the project I could build the WSF/C++ with no trouble. It should be noted that you need to give all your include paths for header files while creating the project or afterwords using the dialog box in file->Project properties.


You may need to select following include folders

wsf/cpp/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/axis2c/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/axis2c/neethi/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/axis2c/axiom/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/axis2c/guththila/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/axis2c/util/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/rampart/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/sandesha2c/include
wsf/cpp/wsf_c/savanc/include

Now if you need to create your own project which use WSF/C++, create your project as the main project. Then from the project properties dialog box select the Required Projects menu and add WSF/C++ project we created at the beginning.

WSF/C++ ported to Solaris and Mac OS

With little effort I could successfully build and run WSF/C++ on a Solaris x86 box. The changes include some include file ordering and a AC_CHECK_LIB macro for socket library in some configuration files. Also make sure to configure with the --with-openssl option with the correct path to my openssl library.
However note that I did not try it with Apache and XMPP transports yet.

Also I heard that Nandika also managed to run WSF/C++ on a Mac box with even little changes.

These changes are availabe with the latest svn copy of WSF/C++.

Getting Started with Axiom/CPP

WSF/CPP comes with its own XML processing model which is Axiom. If you are already familiar with either Axiom/Java or Axiom/C it would not be difficult to grasp how to use Axiom/CPP.

Lets have a look at an small example. Say we want to construct an XML as follows.

<WSO2 xmlns:ns1="http://wso2.org">

<projects>

<WSF>

<WSFCPP>http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/cpp</WSFCPP>

<WSFPHP>http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/php</WSFPHP>

</WSF>

</projects>.

</WSO2>

Lets construct this xml using Axiom/CPP.

First call the Environment::initialize() method to initialize WSF/CPP.

Now create OMElement in the corresponding order. You can pass the parent element to the constructor of the child element. The code is self explanatory.

int main()

{

Environment::initialize("test.log",AXIS2_LOG_LEVEL_TRACE);

OMElement *wso2 = new OMElement(NULL,"WSO2", new OMNamespace("http://wso2.org","ns1"));
OMElement *projects = new OMElement(wso2, "projects");;
OMElement *wsf = new OMElement(projects,"WSF");
OMElement *wsfcpp = new OMElement(wsf, "WSFCPP");
wsfcpp->setText("http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/cpp");
OMElement *wsfphp = new OMElement(wsf, "WSFPHP");
wsfphp->setText("http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/php");

cout<<wso2;
delete wso2;

return 0;

}