Hi My intention was to do both. Since I am designing Merb-based nodes in a SOA each node needs to be able to produce as well as consume SOAP messages.
I read in the pickaxe that Action Web Service does not support document/literal SOAP messages, which is the de facto standard in the WS-I guidelines. I am not sure whether this is a restriction in AWS or in SOAP4R (or if AWS even uses SOAP4R). I guess a SOAP lib that is based on libxml-ruby would be preferable for performance reasons and XML Schema usage. I realize that maybe this specific question is more appropriate for a SOAP4R list or a general WS list, but I think the subject as a whole is a valid Merb issue. I love RESTful development and the lightweight approach to web services, but in a legacy environment SOAP cannot be ignored. And in an enterprise environment, things like standardized policy enforcement, intermediate nodes and so on really rely on SOAP-based techniques. There is a lot of talk these days on whether Merb and other Ruby frameworks (guess which one :-) are ready for enterprise adoption and, in my opinion, in many areas they are. But with the upcoming second generation web services (WS-Security, XML Encryption, WS-Policy and so on) the Ruby SOAP libs are lagging far behind. And again, this is not a Merb-specific issue, since Merb can use any lib you want. But for me, and I think for a few other people as well, it would be a lot easier to argue the use of Merb if there existed an active and up-to-date SOAP-lib that was mentioned in the Merb pages and supported in the same way as e.g. DataMapper. Managers rarely go for the "but you can use anything" argument :-) So if anyone have done some work with Merb/SOAP/SOA/WS-* I would be very happy to hear about your experiences of it. Or maybe running Merb on JRuby using Java libs for SOAP integration. That would really be a strong selling point to my bosses :-) Kindest regards Erik Per Melin skrev: > 2008/10/17 Erik Lindblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I would like to do the refactorization using Merb+DM but the >> potential lack of SOAP support might be a showstopper. >> > > Are we talking about servicing SOAP requests with Merb, or using DM to > collect data from SOAP services? > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
