Re: SOAP and BizTalk

I don't see how it will hurt. The standard is from IBM AND Microsoft. I believe IBM has already opened up their implementation of it. I think that supporting SOAP in PHP will help make PHP available to the people who would like to use it. It will be an easier sell to suggest adding PHP into a system that uses SOAP if PHP works with it, then if PHP doesn't. Let the developers kill SOAP if it is bad. COM is supported in PHP, is that a bad idea? You can support something without pushing it. Support SOAP, push CORBA. Michael Ryan Gaul wrote: > Hold on! Before anyone yells, hear me out. I have seen that some on the list > consider SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/soapspec.asp) a joke, and many of > you may not be familiar with BizTalk, but they are based on Userland's XML-RPC > spec (http://www.xmlrpc.org). While the standard is from Microsoft (whom i am > personally anti), and Dave Winer (who is a egotist jackass extraordinaire), it > makes a lot of sense, and is going to be fairly widely supported (I believe the > folks at Digital Creations are going to do so). > > Now, I am looking to produce a reference implementation of SOAP in PHP. > If someone else is working on this, I'd be glad to help. Otherwise I will do > it myself. In addition, I plan to add BizTalk functionality as well. This will > allow interaction between PHP applications (like the one I'm building for a > customer) to interact with non-php applications and services (like Windows DNA, > and Microsoft's BizTalk server, VB, Perl, Java) in a simple, but non-trivial > way using XML. > > Now, my question is just this, anyone working on this? Is anyone interested in > this? > > Ryan Gaul > > -- > Marge: We can't afford to buy a pony. > > Homer: Marge, with today's gasoline prices, we can't afford not to > buy a pony. > > Lisa's Pony > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net