RE: [SOAP] soap development

> Timeline stuff is difficult for me since I have relatively > little free > time. However, I am hoping to have an alpha of a new soap > library for > php5 out sometime in october. I'm going to put my focus on PHP 5 > because I feel the new features in 5 provide capabilities I tried to > implement or fake somehow in PHP script. Here are some > general thoughts > on what I want to see happen... > > It will be based on top of simplexml and hopefully I'll be able to > utilize some features from libxml. The transport classes > will likely be > changed to use the Curl extension, or at least to take > advantage of the > streams system better. Performance should improve significantly with > this, since most heavy work will occure in C extensions. The soap > library will likely be stripped down also, only supporting > soap 1.2 and > doc/literal on the server side. I want to do a 'lite' and a 'heavy' > client. The lite client would only support doc/literal and no direct > WSDL support (clients would be pre-generated with the wsdl tool or > hand-written). The 'heavy' client would support rpc/encoded > and dynamic > wsdl usage. PHP 5 interfaces and abstract classes will be used to > define server interfaces and data types that can be serialized into > schema and wsdl. There are lots of other little details, such as > supporting WSDL extensions, etc. A problem is that curl isn't installed by default on webhosts. What do you think could be done about that ? I wonder is many people run a soap service on a webhost. It seems that many people using soap run their own server or have an environment which they can change, not like a webhost. Arnaud.