RE: [PEAR-DEV] SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL

> I guess when it comes to maturity, all available implementations in any > language still have a long way to go. Is there anything can maybe be pulled from SOAP::Lite or do they have similar issues? Best regards, Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Reuchlinstr. 10-11 Gebäude 4 1.OG Raum 6 (4.1.6) 10553 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de info@dybnet.de > -----Original Message----- > From: Markus Wolff [mailto:wolff@21st.de] > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:29 PM > To: smith@dybnet.de > Cc: php-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL > > Am Thu, 23 May 2002 14:57:45 +0200 schrieb "Lukas Smith" > <smith@dybnet.de>: > > > What is the current status in terms of SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL in php? > > > > How mature are the solutions? > > When will they be ready for primetime? > > Does anyone already use them in production (that can be used to show off > > how great the support is) or are there any other prominent examples? (I > > know the pear installer uses XMLRPC and Sebastian did something with > > Googles Webservices) > > We´ve been trying to make a PEAR::SOAP webservice talk to a VB.NET SOAP > client. It does work very well when you stick to passing most primitive > datatypes around: Strings, Integers, Floats, Booleans ... > > It stops being fun when you´re trying more complex structures like > resultsets from SQL-Queries. Those could be represented and passed via > SOAP as two-dimensional arrays, and in theory you could either use a > loosely typed two-dimensional array or an array of struct to represent > that data in the VB.NET client - but we did not yet manage to make the > client recognize and deserialize the SOAP data from the PHP script. > > I have not the slightest idea where to start looking. I´ve read tons of > articles on SOAP and WSDL, but all in all, the quality of documentation > on this topic sucks. > > PEAR::SOAP itself is as good as undocumented (at least the server part) > and the documentation for .NET webservices mostly talks about connecting > an ASP.NET webservice to a C# or VB.NET client. When it comes to making > SOAP calls to a client/server on another software platform, or even if > you just want to use SOAP-RPC encoding instead of the default > Document/Literal encoding that .NET does, the documentation is very > uncomplete. > > Thing is, you _have_ to use SOAP-RPC encoding because PEAR::SOAP does > not yet support Document/Literal (in fact, Microsoft seem to be the only > ones who use this encoding method by default or even fully support it). > > I guess when it comes to maturity, all available implementations in any > language still have a long way to go. > > Regards, > Markus > > -- > *21st Media* | Consulting, Konzeption, Produktion für die Bereiche: > Markus Wolff | Internet, Intranet, eCommerce, Content Management, > Hamburg,Germany | Softwareentwicklung, 3D-Animation, Videostreaming > http://21st.de | Tel. [+49](0)40/6887949-0, Fax: > [+49](0)40/6887949-1