Re: .NET application communicate with PHP by using SOAP?

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:35:22AM -0000, Tak Shing wrote: > I want to develop a web-service on different platform. The server side > develops in C++ under .NET framework (Run under Windows), and the client > side develops in PHP script (Run under Linux). We want to use ??SOAP?? > exchanging the message passing between server and client. > > The SOAP is totally new for me. Is it practical to create this > web-service? Well, have you ever considered XML-RPC. The basics of XML-RCP and SOAP are mostly the same. Both use xml serialisation for both requests and responses. XML-RPC is somewhat more supported than SOAP. XML-RPC is a much simpeler form of SOAP. For simple data transfers i recommend XML-RPC. For complex transfers like objects (multitable datasets, etc) please use SOAP. > Does PHP provide any useful SOAP module and library for this > implementation? PEAR provide both XML-RPC as SOAP packages. I believe there's even a PECL extension for SOAP, but i don't think that one is stable yet by looking at the TODO list. Lot's of works needs to be done ;-) As a last remark which shouldn't be taken too serious: I can understand the combination of C# or VB with .NET. But C++ and .Net i don't understand. From the beginning VB was converted to p-code which needed the runtime libraries to run the program. C# is just a javascript inplementation for .NET. Because of the OOP capabilities the name javascript couln't be used. C and C++ were already taken, so that leaves C# ;-) But C++ was always a compiled binary which normaly runs standalone. So why compiling C++ code to CLR-code. And why isn't CLR-code compiled to real binaries. Things would be than a lot faster. Well, as you might have noticed i'm not a real .NET fan. I had to use it a few times for a customer which had seen the .NET commercial from M$ ;-( -- With best regards, Dave Mertens - Senior Development Manager dmertens@ism.nl Innovative Solutions in Media Schiekade 101 3033 BG Rotterdam, Netherlands T +31-10-2436060 F +31-10-2436066 http://www.ism.nl Quality Solutions - Reliable Partner