RE: [PEAR-DEV] phpdoc and web services

Actually SOAP and WSDL are not interlinked at all SOAP can be described via WSDL WSDL can use SOAP as its binding But it does not have to be that way There are some similarities though: - both use XML schema (although SOAP extends XML Schema to also include array's and structs) - both sort of recommend each other But WSDL can of course also be used along side with XML-RPC. BTW: Actually after having read about SOAP and XML-RPC I am beginning to like XML-RPC more and more. XML-RPC is much simpler. It is feature frozen since quite some time. It does not include crazy "routing" stuff that SOAP includes through their header/node concepts but can obviously be extended to do everything that SOAP can. I send a list of useful links that we used during our presentation to the phpedit QA list .. if you want I can also send it to this list. Best regards, Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 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: Stig S. Bakken [mailto:ssb@alltheweb.com] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:32 PM > To: Lukas Smith > Cc: pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] phpdoc and web services > > On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 23:03, Lukas Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just wanted to point you all to an effort by the phpedit > > (ww.phpedit.org) folks. > > They are currently building something similar to phpdoc but according to > > their author he is trying to get some extra features into their thing. > > He is currently preparing the next stable version and is requesting > > comments on his "help text generator." Since I assume a fair amount of > > people will end up using phpedit (I just proposed that someone steps up > > and does a linux port and I am willing to sponsor the kylix license for > > that effort). > > > > Anyways I think it would be good for you guys to maybe put in what you > > would like to see so that the output conforms with what you guys want > > for documentation and meta information. > > > > Also I recently proposed to him to look into wsdl and how that could be > > integrated in the documentation generation. This would be very cool and > > would help php greatly in future development (I just did a presentation > > on sopa, wsdl, uddi and I was blown away by the systinet wasp server and > > how easy it was to create a soap based application and have the wsdl > > document automatically generated). > > > > The developers of phpedit seemed to like the idea (as can be read on the > > phpedit QA mailinglist) > > > > Even if none of you guys like what phpedit is doing and want to stick > > with phpdoc adding wsdl generation would be very cool. This feature > > could also have tie-ins with the soap class that someone mentioned is > > being developed for pear atm (or the xml-rpc/soap extensions that are > > build for php). > > > > Just thought I should through this idea into this mailinglist. I am a > > bit busy with work and doing the metabase stuff . so I can really jump > > into this whole thing right now .. but I will once I have more time > > available (yeah right ;-) ). > > Generating WDSL would be way cool. I did some simple introspection data > generation in pearweb, but I haven't read up enough on SOAP yet. But > this is definitely something that needs doing. > > - Stig