SOAP Library

[Dave Cragg]

On 5 Oct 2007, at 19:06, Mark Wieder wrote:

> I've put my updated version of the stack on revOnline as libSOAP  
> (in user
> space mwieder). There are still some things that won't work from the
> original, as I don't really understand what was intended for these  
> handlers,
> and they're noted as such in the stack script.

Many (all??) of the URLs used in the samples for the original are no  
longer valid.

One problem with the original stack is that it was written when SOAP  
was at an earlier stage. It was used much in the same way as XML-RPC,  
and the "document" method if passing data was just becoming more  
common. WSDL was also less-developed, and Rev's own XML library was  
only introuced while the stack was being developed. (An earlier  
version used some hand-coded XML parsing.)

You might want to point out your revisions to RunRev. I think there  
is a case for consigning the "unsupported" stack to the bonfire. :-)

My inability to "get" SOAP, is that I still don't see how it offers  
great advantages over exchanging XML data with conventional http  
POST. (But I know I'm guilty of not trying hard enough to understand.)

Cheers
Dave