Re: 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