[Zope3-dev] Re: SOAP support?

[Patrick Gerken]

On 1/8/07, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
>
> Previously Patrick Gerken wrote:
> > On 1/8/07, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> > >There is large amount of SOAP deployed and all the .NET development
> > >suites I'm familiar with make using SOAP really easy, so I expect to
> see
> > >SOAP used more rather than less.
> >
> >
> > As I dont work with .NET, can you outline how integration of soap
> services
> > in a .NET application works, given I have a WSDL file and have to
> connect to
> > such a server or provide such a service?
>
> As long as you use .net tools (like visual studio .net) you point the
> IDE to a WSDL file and it generates all the glue code for you and you
> can call it directly. That also works the other way around: you can add
> decorators to class methods and it automatically becomes a
> SOAP-accessible thing with a generated WSDL file (iirc it is generated
> runtime using introspection).
>
> As soon as you have to use SOAP from python you enter a world of pain. A
> few years ago ZSI was basically unusable. Judging by the traffic on the
> pywebsvcs list it is a lot better now, but a 2.0 release has been
> pending for well over a year now.


Oh, I thought they released it already. But yes they only have release
candidates, and the times between different release candidates are still
high :-(
Yes, this pain thing we realised too.
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