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Graham Dumpleton
grahamd at dscpl.com.au
Tue Jun 14 16:44:44 EDT 2005
Did you try reading the ZSI documentation? http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/zsi.html#SECTION003130000000000000000 On 14/06/2005, at 10:54 PM, Alexis Marrero-Narváez wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mod_python mailing list > Mod_python at modpython.org > http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python
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