Talking to MongoDB

In our previous post we saw how to set up MongoDB for running. The application we started was the MongoDB server. It is not a client. To perform any operations, what we need is a way to connect to the server. For this I decided to initially use the mongo shell:

Baby steps at understanding MongoDB

I have never ventured outside the world of relational databases. So when an opportunity to peak into Big Data arrived, I couldn't let the opportunity go. I decided to start with a no sql database first.
After careful thought and deep analysis over a long long period of  5 minutes, I settled on MongoDB. (ovation please !!)

The Phases in the Inbound chain - When does marshaling occur ?

In our last post we saw a simple Interceptor that read the request and modified it before sending it to our endpoint. The interceptor was executed in the PRE_INVOKE phase

Interceptors in CXF

In an earlier post I used JAX-WS Handlers to modify the soap body and soap headers. The same can be achieved by directly writing CXF Interceptors . Consider our random web service operation that returns a random result. I decided to add an interceptor to modify the SOAP body