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Alexis Marrero-Narváez
amarrero at mitre.org
Tue Jun 14 08:54:04 EDT 2005
Does anyone has a "Hello World" example of a web service using ZSI? /amn On Jun 14, 2005, at 6:20 AM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > On 14/06/2005, at 6:17 PM, Gregory Bond wrote: > > >>> The upshot is that I have to agree with >>> Graham D's response: use XML-RPC: it's well standardized and usable >>> from a huge number of clients with minimal effort. >>> >> >> I was under the impression that MS web services were SOAP based >> not XML-RPC based? >> > > If you are writing some new services, does it matter what MS uses > for there own? > If you are having to write clients against MS web services then I > can understand > the need to talk SOAP, but other than that SOAP wouldn't be my > first choice, or > my second, or my third, .... > > >> I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Web Services, but the >> requirement is pretty much that Joe Punter somewhere on the web >> can use his normal PC dev tools and code up calls to my Python >> functions (in VB, Excel or Visual Studio etc) just as easily/ >> conveniently as if I had published the service using IIS or >> whatever is the official MS-blessed way of doing this. >> My international colleagues are using WebLogic or JBOSS for doing >> web services, but they are a java shop and all my logic is in python! >> > > Hmmm, I have never seen the words "easily/conveniently" mentioned > in conjunction > with SOAP before. I also wouldn't assume that just because you > publish a SOAP > API that someone will go to the effort of specially writing clients > to use it. > The only SOAP API I have seen really take off in that way was > Google search. > > >> You are in a maze of twisty little acronyms, all different. >> > > Sounds just like SOAP. :-) > > Sorry if I sound cynical. You might find the following an > interesting read: > > http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/soap-is-dead > > Reminded me that the other alternative to SOAP/XML-RPC is REST > style web services. > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > Mod_python mailing list > Mod_python at modpython.org > http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python >
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