RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: phpdoc and web services

> Obviously at one point or another xml-rpc might need to > be extended. But I just like the general approach of total > simplicity that SOAP seems to abandon (probably because > Microsoft wants to easily bind SOAP to COM and IBM wants > to easily bind with ..). SOAP services can be called in 2 lines of code. SOAP doesn't *have* to be hard, and using XML-RPC can be as complicated as your application necessitates. If you are looking to *implement* SOAP, then you have hit the nail on head: it's a nightmare of complex moving targets ;) If anyone is interested in trying SOAP/WSDL, give SOAPx4 [1] a try. It has pure PHP implementations of both, and needs only the standard XML functions in php. The client interoperates with web services toolkits such as Apache, SOAP::Lite, Microsoft, Userland and more, and has undergone extensive testing with the 30-odd toolkits involved in interop testing at this time (but not claiming to interop w/ all ;) Hopefully this will be helpful to those who are interested in web services and PHP. - dietrich [1] http://dietrich.ganx4.com/soapx4