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 (no frames).
• Logdoc for the client, common and server.
• Last changes, Copyright.

Quick start:

If you have chosen "Compile and run demo" with the Windows installer, you can directly go to the specdocs.

• Check that Java and 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

links:

• Web site.
• On line demo.
• Download page.

Possible incompatibilities:

XINS 2.1 is mostly compatible with XINS 2.0.

In order to help you, here is the list of the possible incompatibilities you may find:

• check-version target not found. You need to delete the generated build\build.xml file.
• The cookie SessionId set by the front-end framework has been renamed to SessionID.