as you suggested, I added a few comments to your agenda proposition:
Cool! I was beginning to feel like I was talking into a void ;)
Hi !
I am here too, I haven't said anything so far, because I dont have any experience of SOAP (I know how it works, and understand its benefits), up until now I haven't had the need - old technologies have always done the trick.
I am doing quite a bit of work at the moment with PHP-GTK, and am now interested in the possibilities with using SOAP. At the moment, I am learning/experimenting with serializing Gtk objects (not sure if it is possible at all....). If it is possible, we would be able to create applications which are truly in line with M$'s .NET _idea_.
I was wondering if you could answer some questions about some ideas I have.
1: Will it be possible to create a soap server from native php objects (e.g. domxml?), or even the php engine itself (so that you could call, array_unique or mail functions from any SOAP enabled server/application, without php needed locally)
2: Could GTK classes be served by a SOAP server?
I am thinking of an application which can load new widgets/application functionality, on the fly from the web... The ultimate app, with plug-ins available for every type of file, the (main) app could detect the file type and then load a sub application (either via soap, or from locally stored, serialized Gtk objects, as with temp internet files)....pie in the sky?.... what you you think?
Mike