eXo Web Services

The Web Services module allows eXo technology to integrate with external products and services.

It is implementation of API for RESTful Web Services with extensions, Servlet and cross-domain AJAX web-frameworks and JavaBean-JSON transformer.

You will have a comprehensive knowledge of eXo Web Services via the following topics:

• Introduction to Representational State Transfer (REST)

  Common knowledge of REST.

• Overwriting default providers

  Instructions on how to overwrite the default providers in the eXo JAX-RS implementation.

• Rest Services List

  Instructions on how to get the list of services in the HTML and JSON formats.

• Groovy scripts as REST services

  Instructions on how to use Groovy scripts as REST services via the main content, such as loading script and saving it in JCR, instantiation, deploying newly created class as RESTful service, script lifecycle management, getting node UUID example, and Groovy script restrictions.

• Framework for cross-domain AJAX

  Instructions on how to use a framework to cross-domain AJAX provided by eXo Web Services.

Introduction to Representational State Transfer (REST)

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems, such as World Wide Web. The term was introduced in the doctoral dissertation in 2000 by Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification, and has come into widespread use in the networking community.

REST strictly refers to a collection of network architecture principles that outline how resources are defined and addressed. The term is often used in a looser sense to describe any simple interface that transmits domain-specific data over HTTP without an additional messaging layer, such as SOAP or session tracking via HTTP cookies.

The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. “today’s weather in Los Angeles”), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and so on. In other words, any concept that might be the target of an author’s hypertext reference must fit within the definition of a resource. A resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time.

REST uses a ``resource identifier ``to identify the particular resource involved in an interaction between components. REST connectors provide a generic interface for accessing and manipulating the value set of a resource, regardless of how the membership function is defined or the type of software that is handling the request. URL or URN are the examples of a resource identifier.

REST components perform actions with a resource by using a representation to capture the current or intended state of that resource and transferring that representation between components. A representation is a sequence of bytes, plus ``representation

metadata ``to describe those bytes. Other commonly used but less

precise names for a representation include: ``document, file, and

HTTP message entity, instance, or variant``. A representation

consists of data, metadata describing the data, and, on occasion, metadata to describe the metadata (usually for the purpose of verifying message integrity). Metadata are in the form of name-value pairs, where the name corresponds to a standard that defines the value’s structure and semantics. The data format of a representation is known as a media type.

Data Element	Modern Web Examples
resource	the intended conceptual target of a hypertext reference
resource identifier	URL, URN
representation	HTML document, JPEG image
representation metadata	media type, last-modified time
resource metadata	source link, alternates, vary
control data	if-modified-since, cache-control

Table: REST Data Elements

REST uses various connector types to encapsulate the activities of accessing resources and transferring resource representations. The connectors present an abstract interface for component communication, enhancing simplicity by providing a complete separation of concepts and hiding the underlying implementation of resources and communication mechanisms.

Connector	Modern Web Examples
client	libwww, libwww-perl
server	libwww, Apache API, NSAPI
cache	browser cache, Akamai cache network
resolver	bind (DNS lookup library)
tunnel	SOCKS, SSL after HTTP CONNECT

Table: REST Connectors

The primary connector types are client and server. The essential difference between the two is that a client initiates communication by making a request, whereas a server listens to connections and responds to requests to supply access to its services. A component may include both client and server connectors.

An important part of RESTful architecture is a well-defined interface to communicate. In particular, it is a set of HTTP methods, such as POST, GET, PUT and DELETE. These methods are often compared with the CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE (CRUD) operations associated with database technologies. An analogy can also be made:

• PUT is analogous to CREATE or PASTE OVER,

• GET to READ or COPY,

• POST to UPDATE or PASTE AFTER, and

• DELETE to DELETE or CUT.

Note

The RESTful architecture is not limited to those methods, one good example of extension is the WebDAV protocol.

The CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) verbs are designed to operate with atomic data within context of a database transaction. REST is designed around the atomic transfer of a more complex state and can be viewed as a mechanism for transferring structured information from one application to another.

HTTP separates notions of a web server and a web browser. This allows the implementation of each to vary from the other based on the client/server principle. When being used RESTfully, HTTP is stateless. Each message contains all information necessary to understand the request.

As a result, neither the client nor the server needs to remember any communication-state between messages. Any state retained by the server must be modeled as a resource.

You should read Oracle Documentation for more knowledge about REST.

Overwriting default providers

This section will show you how to overwrite the default providers in eXo JAX-RS implementation.

There is set of providers embedded in eXo JAX-RS implementation.

Implementations of MessageBodyReader and MessageBodyWriters are taking care about serialization/deserialization of message body (HTTP request/response’s body).

The next set of media and Java types are processed automatically, thanks to embedded Readers (Writers).

Media Type	Java Type
*/*	byte[]
*/*	javax.activation.DataSource
*/*	java.io.File
*/*	java.io.InputStream
*/*	java.io.Reader
*/*	java.lang.String
*/*	javax.ws.rs.core.StreamingOutput (Writer ONLY)
application/json	Object with simple constructor + get/set methods; 2. Java Collection (java.uitl.List<T>, java.uitl.Set<T>, java.util.Map<String, T>, etc) where T as described in 1.
application/x-www-form-urlencoded	javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap<String, String>
multipart/*	java.util.Iterator<org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem>
application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/xml	javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement
application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/xml	Object with JAXB annotations
application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/xml	javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource
application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/xml	javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource
application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/xml	javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource

Table: Embedded Reader and Writers of message body

In some cases, it may be required to use alternative provider for the same media and Java type, but such changes must not impact to any other services.

To overwrite default JAX-RS provider(s):

1. Deploy your own RESTful service(s) by using the subclass of javax.ws.rs.core.Application (hereinafter Application).

2. Your service does NOT NEED to implement the marker interface ResourceContainer and MUST NOT be configured as component of eXo Container. Instead, Application must be configured as component of eXo Container.

3. If RESTful services or providers require some dependencies from eXo Container, Application should inject it by own constructor and then delegate to services or providers. As an alternative method, getClasses() may be used for delivering services/providers classes instead of instances. In this case, services/providers will work in the per-request mode and RESTful framework will take care about resolving dependencies.

The following example shows how to use the Jackson JSON provider instead of embedding in the eXo RESTful framework.

Create the subclass of javax.ws.rs.core.Application with code as bellow and add it to the eXo Container configuration.

package org.exoplatform.test.jackson;

import org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;

public class Application1 extends Application
{
   @Override
   public Set<Class<?>> getClasses()
   {
      Set<Class<?>> cls = new HashSet<Class<?>>(1);
      cls.add(Resource1.class);
      return cls;
   }

   @Override
   public Set<Object> getSingletons()
   {
      Set<Object> objs = new HashSet<Object>(1);
      objs.add(new JacksonJaxbJsonProvider());
      return objs;
   }
}

In this example, it is assumed that Resource1 is Java class that carries JAX-RS annotations and uses JSON. In this case, the RESTful framework will use JacksonJaxbJsonProvider for serializing/deserializing all messages to/from Resource1. But it will not impact other services.

Rest Services List

The RestServicesList service provides information about REST services deployed to the application server.

• Path - Path to the service.

• Regex - Service’s URL regular expression.

• FQN - The full qualified name of service’s class.

The list can be provided in two formats: HTML and JSON.

Note

The class does not implement org.exoplatform.services.rest.resource.ResourceContainer and must never be bound to the RESTful framework by using eXoContainer. This service must work as per-request resource.

HTML format

To get the list of services in HTML format, use the listHTML() method:

@GET
@Produces({MediaType.TEXT_HTML})
public byte[] listHTML()
{
   ...
}

To do this, perform a simple GET request to the RestServicesList link.

For example, the curl -u root:exo http://localhost:8080/rest/ command will return such HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" >
<html>
   <head>
      <title>eXo JAXRS Implementation</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h3 style="text-align:center;">Root resources</h3>
      <table   width="90%"   style="table-layout:fixed;">
         <tr>
            <th>Path</th>
            <th>Regex</th>
            <th>FQN</th>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>script/groovy</td>
            <td>/script/groovy(/.*)?</td>
            <td>org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.GroovyScript2RestLoader</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>/lnkproducer/</td>
            <td>/lnkproducer(/.*)?</td>
            <td>org.exoplatform.services.jcr.webdav.lnkproducer.LnkProducer</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>/registry/</td>
            <td>/registry(/.*)?</td>
            <td>org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.registry.RESTRegistryService</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>/jcr</td>
            <td>/jcr(/.*)?</td>
            <td>org.exoplatform.services.jcr.webdav.WebDavServiceImpl</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>/</td>
            <td>(/.*)?</td>
            <td>org.exoplatform.services.rest.ext.service.RestServicesList</td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </body>
</html>

If you perform the same request with your browser, you will see the table with the list of deployed services like this:

Path	Regex	FQN
script/groovy	/script/groovy(/.*)?	org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.GroovyScript2RestLoader
/lnkproducer/	/lnkproducer(/.*)?	org.exoplatform.services.jcr.webdav.lnkproducer.LnkProducer
/registry/	/registry(/.*)?	org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.registry.RESTRegistryService
/jcr	/jcr(/.*)?	org.exoplatform.services.jcr.webdav.WebDavServiceImpl
/	(/.*)?	org.exoplatform.services.rest.ext.service.RestServicesList

JSON format

To get the list of services in HTML format, use the listJSON() method:

@GET
@Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
public RootResourcesList listJSON()
{
   ...
}

To do this, add the “Accept:application/json” header to your GET request.

For example, the ``curl -u root:exo http://localhost:8080/rest/ -H

“Accept:application/json”`` command will return such JSON:

{"rootResources":[
   {
      "fqn":"org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.GroovyScript2RestLoader",
      "regex":"/script/groovy(/.*)?",
      "path":"script/groovy"
   },
   {
      "fqn":"org.exoplatform.services.jcr.webdav.lnkproducer.LnkProducer",
      "regex":"/lnkproducer(/.*)?",
      "path":"/lnkproducer/"
   },
   {
      "fqn":"org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.registry.RESTRegistryService",
      "regex":"/registry(/.*)?",
      "path":"/registry/"
   },
   {
      "fqn":"org.exoplatform.services.jcr.webdav.WebDavServiceImpl",
      "regex":"/jcr(/.*)?",
      "path":"/jcr"
   },
   {
      "fqn":"org.exoplatform.services.rest.ext.service.RestServicesList",
      "regex":"(/.*)?",
      "path":"/"
   }
]}

Groovy scripts as REST services

This section describes how to use Groovy scripts as REST services via the following topics:

• Loading and saving script in JCR

• Instantiation

• Auto re-deploying

• Script lifecycle management

• Getting node UUID example

In this section, the RESTful service is considered to be compatible with the JSR-311 specification.

Loading and saving script in JCR

There are two ways to save a script in JCR. The first way is to save it at server startup time by using configuration.xml and the second way is to upload the script via HTTP.

Loading script at startup time

This way can be used for loading prepared scripts. To use this way, you need to configure org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.GroovyScript2RestLoaderPlugin. See the simple configuration example below.

<external-component-plugins>
  <target-component>org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.GroovyScript2RestLoader</target-component>
  <component-plugin>
    <name>test</name>
    <set-method>addPlugin</set-method>
    <type>org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.GroovyScript2RestLoaderPlugin</type>
    <init-params>
      <value-param>
        <name>repository</name>
        <value>repository</value>
      </value-param>
      <value-param>
        <name>workspace</name>
        <value>production</value>
      </value-param>
      <value-param>
        <name>node</name>
        <value>/script/groovy</value>
      </value-param>
      <properties-param>
        <name>JcrGroovyTest.groovy</name>
        <property name="autoload" value="true" />
        <property name="path" value="file:/home/andrew/JcrGroovyTest.groovy" />
      </properties-param>
    </init-params>
  </component-plugin>
</external-component-plugins>

• The first value-param sets JCR repository.

• The second value-param sets workspace.

• The third one sets JCR node where scripts from plugin will be stored.

If the specified node does not exist, it will be created. The list of scripts is set by properties-params. Name of each properties-param will be used as node name for stored script. The autoload property deploys this script at startup time, and the path property sets the source of script to be loaded. In this example, the single script is loaded from the local file: /home/andrew/JcrGroovyTest.groovy.

Loading script via HTTP

This is sample of HTTP requests. In this example, the script is loaded from the test.groovy file.

andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
-X POST \
-H 'Content-type:script/groovy' \
--data-binary @test.groovy \
http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/add/repository/production/script/groovy/test.groovy

This example imitates sending data with the HTML form (’multipart/form-data’). The autoload parameter is optional. If the autoload parameter is set to “true” (autoload=true), the script will be instantiated and deployed immediately.

andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
-X POST \
-F "file=@test.groovy;name=test" \
-F "autoload=true" \
http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/add/repository/production/script/groovy/test1.groovy

Instantiation

org.exoplatform.services.script.groovy.GroovyScriptInstantiator is part of the exo.core.component.script.groovy project. GroovyScriptInstantiator can load script from specified URL and parse stream that contains Groovy source code. It has possibility of injecting the component from Container in the Groovy Class constructor. See the configuration example:

<component>
  <type>org.exoplatform.services.script.groovy.GroovyScriptInstantiator</type>
</component>

Note

You should keep one class per one Groovy file. This is the same for interface and its implementation. However, the Groovy parser is limited that does not have the Class[] parseClass(InputStream) or Collection parseClass(InputStream) type but only Class parseClass(InputStream) instead.

Auto re-deploying

As described in previous sections, GroovyScript2RestLoader can be configured to deploy the scripts automatically at server startup time.

It can also be configured to detect if source code of a deployed script has changed and re-deploy it. Once again, it works on the scripts that have exo:autoload property set to “true”.

Example of configuration:

<component>
    <type>org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.GroovyScript2RestLoader</type>
    <init-params>
      <object-param>
        <name>observation.config</name>
        <object type="org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.script.groovy.ObservationListenerConfiguration">
          <field name="repository">
            <string>repository</string>
          </field>
          <field name="workspaces">
            <collection type="java.util.ArrayList">
              <value>
                <string>production</string>
              </value>
            </collection>
          </field>
        </object>
      </object-param>
    </init-params>
</component>

In the example above, the JCR workspace “production” will be checked for autoload scripts. At once, this workspace will listen to changes in the script’s source code (jcr:data property).

Script lifecycle management

If GroovyScript2RestLoader is configured as described in the previous section, all “autoload” scripts will be deployed. In the first section, the script from /home/andrew/JcrGroovyTest.groovy is copied to the JCR node: /script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy - repository “repository” and workspace “production”. Similarly to Loading a script via HTTP, you can use curl commands to manage the script lifecycle.

1. Undeploy the script, which is already deployed:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X GET \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/load/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy?state=false
   

2. Deploy it again:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X GET \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/load/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy?state=true
   

   Or more simple:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X GET \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/load/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy
   

3. Disable the scripts autoloading:

   Note

   This does not change the current state.

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X GET \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy/autoload?state=false
   

4. Enable it again:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X GET \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/autoload/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy?state=true
   

   Or more simpe:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X GET \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/autoload/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy
   

5. Change the script source code:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X POST \
   -H 'Content-type:script/groovy' \
   --data-binary @JcrGroovyTest.groovy \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/update/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy
   

   This example imitates sending data with HTML form (’multipart/form-data’):

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X POST \
   -F "file=@JcrGroovyTest.groovy;name=test" \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/update/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy
   

6. Remove script from JCR:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X GET \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/delete/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy
   

Getting node UUID example

Now you are going to try a simple example of Groovy RESTfull service. There is one limitation to your Groovy script that you should use Java style code and decline to use dynamic types anywhere except in private methods and fields.

1. Create a script with the following code and save it to your home directory: /home/andrew/JcrGroovyTest.groovy.

   import javax.jcr.Node
   import javax.jcr.Session
   import javax.ws.rs.GET
   import javax.ws.rs.Path
   import javax.ws.rs.PathParam
   import org.exoplatform.services.jcr.RepositoryService
   import org.exoplatform.services.jcr.ext.app.ThreadLocalSessionProviderService
   
   @Path("groovy/test/{repository}/{workspace}")
   public class JcrGroovyTest {
     private RepositoryService                 repositoryService
     private ThreadLocalSessionProviderService sessionProviderService
   
     public JcrGroovyTest(RepositoryService repositoryService,
                                              ThreadLocalSessionProviderService sessionProviderService) {
           this.repositoryService = repositoryService
           this.sessionProviderService = sessionProviderService
     }
   
     @GET
     @Path("{path:.*}")
     public String nodeUUID(@PathParam("repository") String repository,
                                                    @PathParam("workspace") String workspace,
                                                    @PathParam("path") String path) {
           Session ses = null
           try {
             ses = sessionProviderService.getSessionProvider(null).getSession(workspace, repositoryService.getRepository(repository))
             Node node = (Node) ses.getItem("/" + path)
             return node.getUUID() + "\n"
           } finally {
             if (ses != null)
                   ses.logout()
           }
     }
   

2. Configure GroovyScript2RestLoaderPlugin as described in Loading script at startup time, then start the server. If configuration is correct and script does not have syntax error, you should see the service is deployed:

   

3. Create a folder ‘test’ in the repository “production” via WebDAV. Now, you can try to access this service. Open another console and type command:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/groovy/test/repository/production/test
   

   At this time it should have exception, because the JCR node “/test” is not referenceable and has not UUID. You will fix it in next steps by adding the mixin mix:referenceable.

4. Open the script from local source code: /home/andrew/JcrGroovyTest.groovy, then add the following code and save:

   @POST
   @Path("{path:.*}")
   public void addReferenceableMixin(@PathParam("repository") String repository,
   @PathParam("workspace") String workspace,
   @PathParam("path") String path) {
   Session ses = null
   try {
   ses = sessionProviderService.getSessionProvider(null).getSession(workspace, repositoryService.getRepository(repository))
   Node node = (Node) ses.getItem("/" + path)
   node.addMixin("mix:referenceable")
   ses.save()
   } finally {
   if (ses != null)
   ses.logout()
   }
   }
   

5. Upload the new source code to the server by the following command:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -i -v -u root:exo \
   -X POST \
   --data-binary @JcrGroovyTest.groovy \
   -H 'Content-type:script/groovy' \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/update/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy
   

   The /script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy node has the exo:autoload=true property, so the script will be re-deployed automatically and you will see:

   

6. Access the newly created method by the command:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   -X POST \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/groovy/test/repository/production/test
   

   The method should run quietly, without any logs. Now, get the UUID node:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/groovy/test/repository/production/test
   1b8c88d37f0000020084433d3af4941f
   

   The UUID node: 1b8c88d37f0000020084433d3af4941f

7. You do not need this script any more, so remove it from JCR:

   andrew@ossl:~> curl -u root:exo \
   http://localhost:8080/rest/script/groovy/delete/repository/production/script/groovy/JcrGroovyTest.groovy
   

   

Framework for cross-domain AJAX

eXo Web Service provides a framework to cross-domain AJAX. This section shows you how to use this framework.

You can checkout the source code at https://github.com/exoplatform/ws/tree/master/exo.ws.frameworks.javascript.cross-domain-ajax.

Motivation

The XmlHttpRequest objects are bound by the same origin security policy of browsers, which prevents a page from accessing data from another server. This has put a serious limitation on the AJAX developers. That is, you can use XmlHttpRequests to make background calls to a server, but it has to be the same server that served up the current page. Visit http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/same-origin.html for more details.

But actually, writing client web applications that use this object can be tricky given restrictions imposed by web browsers on network connections across domains. So you need to find the way to bypass this limitation of AJAX.

Working scheme

To describe the method for the cross-domain AJAX solution, consider the following scheme that contains 3 components:

1. User agent (a browser).

2. ServerA contains a main page with dedicated client and server IFRAMEs (see below) and an HTML client page (client.html) referenced from the IFRAME client. This client page contains the dedicated script to push data for request into the IFRAME server.

3. ServerB contains remote service that wants to get access to and an HTML server page (server.html) referenced from the IFRAME server. This server page contains a dedicated script to push the requested data into the IFRAME client.

Working sequence

1. A browser requests the Start page from ServerA, so the Start page is retrieved from ServerA.

2. Create one IFRAME element (“client iframe”) in the Start page IFRAME and insert it in the document from ServerA (client.html).

3. In “client iframe”, create one IFRAME element (“server iframe”) and insert it in the document from ServerB (server.html). Documents (client.html and server.html) contain special script that can transfer data between iframes.

4. “Client iframe” transfers information about HTTP method and URL that you want to do cross-domain request to “server iframe”.

5. “Server iframe” does simple XmlHttpRequest to the service that you need (it can do that because it downloads from the same domain) and gets information from service.

6. “Server iframe” transfers data to “client iframe” and now you get information that you want.

How to use?

1. Place the client.html and xda.js files in ServerA.

2. Place the server.html file in ServerB.

3. Declare xda.js in the main page: <script type="text/javascript" src="xda.js"></script>.

4. Create the JS function which performs cross domain call as in the following example:

   <script type="text/javascript">
     function test(){
                                   var facade = xdaInit();
                                   facade.clientURI = "http://localhost/cross-domain-ajax/client/client.html";
                                   facade.serverURI = "http://localhost:8080/cross-domain-ajax/server/server.html";
                                   facade.apiURI = "http://localhost:8080/cross-domain-ajax/server/test.txt";
                                   facade.method = "POST";
                                   facade.load = function(result) {
                                                                   alert(result.responseText);
                                   }
                                   facade.setRequestHeader("keep-alive","200");
                                   xda.create(facade);
                   }
   </script>
   

5. Use this function (here it is bound to a button’s onclick event): <button onclick='test()'>test cross-domain</button>.