Forum OpenACS Development: Re: XOTcl remoting services

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Posted by Jade Rubick on
It might be useful for someone to look at all of the SOAP and WSDL related solutions and summarize the pros and cons of each.
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Posted by Tom Jackson on
Information on tWSDL is here:

http://junom.com/document/tWSDL/

I believe that the software has achieved the specified goals for the server. The example API docs are a little old, but the example services work and are the best example of how to use the API. Also TWiST is an example of how to create a higher level API for a specific purpose, such as wrapping the database API.

tWSDL has a number of layered abstractions which are not fully explained in the documentation (yet). These abstractions will not likely change as they reflect the standards.

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Posted by Stefan Sobernig on
Jade, I heavily support this idea. Such a comparison proofed useful for our work and it is certainly a necessity for the community.

One intention of on our report above was to contribute to a more structured discussion on the state of (a)
abstract dispatch mechanisms in OpenACS and (b) of remoting support for OpenACS.

As a first step, we might come up with a state-of-the-art report (xowiki-based), requirements gathering based upon the results of the existing solutions, review of available code, ... we can then distil this into a consumable comparison scheme.

Again, this would also be an interesting task for a thematic workshop during scheduled Vienna meeting, such a comparison being the joint work artefact.