Ignacio,
Thanks for your feedback, and your offer to help.
I alerady have a vague idea now about the architecture you are aiming for. If I got you right, …
• you would like to start the BaseX server as a separate instance (outside the web application); • you want your WAR file to be restricted to RESTXQ files; and • you would like to have a thin layer that passes on everything to the server layer.
Is this correct? Maybe you could give us a quick example of a request, and how you believe it shall be processed step by step?
Christian
The problem is that I want to have the same client-server architecture using a “web-client” running restxq. I’ve successfully deployed the WAR file on tomcat and I’ve tuned the parameters on web.xml to access the same “files” the basexserver is serving but this is not a real “client-server” architecture because the JVM on the web application server is not connecting to the basexserver but just sharing the same files! In the example above, I can stop my basexserver and the web application is still running because it hosts its own server.
I’m a experience developer and I think I might be capable of help you decouple the processing of the restxq message and the execution of the query on a remote server. At least if I’d access to the source code I could eventually understand why I cannot properly do that now.
Best regards Ignacio
El 27 jul 2017, a las 14:11, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com escribió:
Hola Ignacio,
Welcome to the list.
Usually, the best way to get started is to download the ZIP or EXE version of BaseX and follow the instructions in our documentation [1]:
• If you start the BaseX GUI, you can create databases, run queries, view your data via various visualizations, etc. • If you start the BaseX HTTP Server, you can simply open your browser and visit http://localhost:8984/dba/ to access the web-based administration interface.
Now some more specific replies on your questions:
I’ve been trying to configure the web administration portal to be used with a remote server with no success. It looks like it is not possible to take advantage of the client-server architecture from the Web Application http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Web_Application
What kind of remote server do you work with? Indeed BaseX provides a client/server architecture – which will be made available after starting the BaseX Server – but I assume you are rather interested in the HTTP services, such as RESTXQ? Have you already tried to embed BaseX as a servlet?
Saludos de Alemania, Christian