Frank, Hi again. Just to cover our reasons for using gsoap:
1. It is older software ... fewer bugs. Lower risk for a production project. 2. We used it for an rpc wsdl, so nothing too fancy as far as wsdls go. 3. Our legacy C++ software developers and integration team knows almost nothing about building C++ code with ant (they dislike all things java). 4. Axis2 for java was not ready for production so (at the time) we did not consider Axis2/c. On 8/20/07, Samisa Abeysinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank Zhou wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to build a web service application in c++, > > and now investigate to see if AXIS2/c can satisfy my > > needs. Specifically, I have the following > > requirements: > > > > (1) The library supports common web services standards > > like SOAP/HTTP/WSDL et cetera. I will use it to build > > a web service client application (web service > > consumer). > > > Axis2/C can handle SOAP over HTTP. But there are some TODOs pending in > WSDL space. > > (2) It should provides a rich set of APIs for me to > > traverse through a WSDL and make SOAP/HTTP calls. In > > particular, I need a WSDL parser so that I can parse > > a > > WSDL (given the WSDL file or the URL)to get the > > definitions. I DO NOT NEED TO CONVERT THE WSDL TO > > C++ code, just need to parse a WSDL to get the > > definitions, later on I will traverse the parsed > > objects to get the services, operations, messages > > and types (XML schemas) et cetera to build my only > > datastore for a given WSDL. This way I can > > dynamically handle different WSDLs in my application > > without generating the c++ code stubs every time. > > > As mentioned earlier, there is a piece of code written in Axis2/C called > woden, that can deal with the WSDL functionality that you are looking for. > Unfortunately that is not in the main source tree, because we could not > maintain it - due to lack of contributors in that space. > At some point, however, someone will again start looking into that, at > which point you would have WSDL handling features. > > (3) The library is in c++ and available for > > multi-platforms, like windows, linux and unix et > > cetera. > > > Axis2/C is a C library, that works on Windows, Solaris, MacOS and Linux. > > Please let me know if AXIS2/c is a good choice to me. > > and how it is compared to gSOAP? > > > I am not in a position to do a formal comparison on Axis2/C vs. gSOAP. > However, here is an overview: > - Axis2/C comes with Apache license, and gSOAP comes with GNU license > - Axis2/C is just two years old, gSOAP has been around for much longer > - Axis2/C is based on Axis2 architecture, an architecture designed > to cope with extensions and addition of new WS-* spec implementations. > You would have to refer to gSOAP site on their architecture > - Axis2/C already have full WS-Security and WS-RM implementations, > to my knowledge, gSOAP do not have those specs implemented fully. > (http://www.bloglines.com/blog/samisa?id=57) > - Axis2/C has a comparatively simple deployment model. You get > Apache2 and IIS modules with Axis2/C. If you are using apache module to > deploy, it is one off configuration. But if gSOAP, you have to configure > Apache server for each and every service that you cant to deploy. > - Axis2/C has the ability to support many other transports. It > already support HTTP and TCP. WSO2 WSF/C has implemented an XMPP > transport and one of the GSOC students is implementing and SMTP > transport. To my knowledge, gSOAP only support HTTP transport > > HTH > > Regards, > Samisa... > > > > Thanks very much. > > Frank > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Need a vacation? Get great deals > > to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. > > http://travel.yahoo.com/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > Samisa Abeysinghe : WSO2 WSF/C > " > http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/c?WSO2 Web Services Framework/C - Open source C library for providing and consuming Web services > " > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
