Re: web services

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:49:05 +0100, you wrote: >I am currently trying to understand how to place content on a different site >without giving away my code. SOAP seems to be the solution. I am absolutly First off, I have to say this is a social problem, not a technical one. If you're worried about the theft of your code (and, to be honest, most code is worthless anyway), tackle it with a contract, not a hack. >new to web services. What I did understand so far is that it is basicly >pritty simple to transfer some data like a currency exchange rate over the >web service. But how about a complete web portal? Connected to the same DB, SOAP is simply a mechanism for calling functions that may be hosted on other computers. It's useful because it's a standard, and it goes through firewalls. Divide your application's functions down the middle, and decide which will be on machine A and which on machine B. But be warned, this will be /slow/, less reliable and more complex to write. This goes for any kind of RPC, not just SOAP, especially with PHP (lack of threads, no native support). >the php files hosted on my server, but the application served by a different >server. Like co branding the portal. Is this possible as well? Yes it's possible. Think of it like this... you currently have a database layer, right? All the bits of code that talk to the database are out in a seperate file or class? That's the part that you'd probably move to a seperate computer, and would call via SOAP. >Maybe someone can point me into the right direction. NuSOAP? .NET? Java?