Neil Finlayson: Groove Tips

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:39:42 GMT

Tim Driving Forward

Groove Webservices Access Point. Up until now I only had a look at accessing Groove Web Services (GWS) locally (SOAP-client on same device as Groove Workspace). The Groove Access Point can be used to access GWS remotely. Although remote access is only available in 'Preview Mode' in the current release of Groove (2.5a), it gives a good insight in what will be possible.
Check out this page to see 'remote access' in action. I use PHP and NuSOAP to do some simple Read-operations on a remote Groove-account. So how does it work? First one has to register with the Access Point, so the AP knows to which device to forward the request. This is done by the 'gnslnsreg' utility which can be found in de Web Services GDK (gnslnsreg has dependencies on the MS SOAP ToolKit 2.0 SP2 and MSXML3.0, so make sure you've got those installed). After registering it's simple: make the call to http://webservices.groove.net as you would do with a local request. [Tim Knip's Groovey Weblog]

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:07:15 GMT

Built in testing

Oh yes I read Kent Beck, but I don't always practise what he preaches, though I used JUnit on a web project last year and very useful it was too.

So I'm thinking how can we use test-first design inside of our Groove Javascripts? We have a couple of options eg

http://www.edwardh.com/jsunit/

(looks fully featured, very nice TestRunner)

and

http://jsassertunit.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html

(more compact, love those comments!) - looks easier to get going inside of Groove.

Next steps:

convert assert.js to gsl file
get HelloWorld test going from test tpl file
check that results appear in browser

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:53:44 GMT

Test post to tips