Soap Documentation (other than samples)

[Dave Cragg]

At 2:10 pm -0700 11/6/03, Edwin Gore wrote:
>I'm starting to play around with Amazon's Web Services stuff, and I
>noticed that none of the 2.0 commands for using Soap seem to have
>made it into the Docs. I know about the sample files, and it looks
>like that has everything I am going to need to start fooling around,
>just wanted to make Jeanne et. al. aware that none of it made it
>into the docs, so it might be hard for some people to find.

I can't speak for Jeanne or Kevin, but I think it was probably a good 
idea not to include the SOAP stuff in the docs. When the revSOAP 
toolbox was put together (I'll take the blame), there had been some 
requests for SOAP support but nothing specific about what kind of 
support was wanted. At the same time, various standards in the web 
services world were in a state of flux, and new standards seemed to 
be coming into play every other week. So the toolbox was basically a 
guide to how you might put together SOAP requests.

If more people need to use SOAP, then I'm hoping more specific 
requests might come in about the form this may take, appropriate 
syntax, etc. (Requests to RunRev, please, not me.) If something more 
concrete were to emerge from that, then that might be the time to 
include it in the docs.

Please let us know about your experiences with Amazon.

Cheers
Dave

PS Do you have the SOAP toolbox that shipped with the final release 
of 2.0? In some of the earlier beta releases, there was a less 
complete "examples" stack only.