Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Google Web Services & OpenACS

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5: Re: Google Web Services & OpenACS (response to 1)
Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 08/26/03 03:04 PM
I think any example of having a SOAP client working in OpenACS could be of a lot of help. I think creating a generic interface for applications to use SOAP calls instead of "ns_httpdget" or stuff like that, would be amazing.

I think then Google webservices would be only one application of such a feature.

Just my two cents :)

/B

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7: Re: Google Web Services & OpenACS (response to 5)
Posted by Andrew T on 08/26/03 03:36 PM
No, you are right a general SOAP client would be a lot more useful. Unfortunately its out of the scope of my project and in addition theres no way i would be able to implement it in 5-6 weeks time. I have to produce something that works with Google... but thanks :)

what do openACS developers currently use to do SOAPS calls? should i look at tcl soap http://tclsoap.sourceforge.net/ ?

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10: Re: Google Web Services & OpenACS (response to 7)
Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 08/26/03 07:17 PM
I don't have any experience with TclSOAP, maybe some other person in the community has used it before and can give you some more informed feedback. I have used SOAP::Lite (perl) tough :)

To implement the simple HTTP transport layer for SOAP you could use TclSOAP (again with the caveat that I haven't used it myself) or Tcl + tDOM and start something there yourself. Probably in the timeframe you are mentioning it won't be easy to recreate the wheel :)

/B