Hi all, We're going to start a project which we want to develop using Mono. The question is that we are going to use Web Services.
Now, I have mainly 3 doubts about Web Services and patents: 1st) In the same way I understand that Mono implements Windows Forms just for compatibility with .NET, but that we can use other gui toolkits (such as GTK# or wxNET), or implements ADO.NET for compatibility, but we can use GdaSharp, Is there any alternative to the .NET stack of Web Services? I mean, an implementation of a free library of Web Services (SOAP, not xml-rpc) that could substitute System.Web.Services. I've read about gnome soup, but in: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/soup/ I find that las entry is from April 2003, so I'm not sure about its current state. 2nd) In case there's no mono "alternative", how dangerous might be using System.Web.Services in long term? I don't need any compatibility with .NET, I just want to develop an application which uses Web Services in Mono. As far as I understand in: http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing the Web Services part is not as easy to defend as the rest of Mono, and it *could* happen to "remove the pieces of code that were covered by those patents", keeping Mono as a great development platform. But how could I develop WS? 3rd) What would be the worst case in Web Services? All I read in FAQs and interviews etc. is that the first thing to do in case of problems with patents is finding previous art. Being Web Services a standard, is it easier to find this? Apache Axis could be an example? Or what would be patented are the namespaces or something like that?. If this is not possible, I've read the next step is to try to change the implementation. What does this exactly mean? Different API doing the same thing? Or it would be changed just inside? thank you so much for reading and of course for answering, and sorry if my english is not as good as could 0:-), Pedro P.S: I've already read this thread: http://galactus.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-list/2003-February/012111.html but I'm not sure I get a clear answer, and at that time maybe the implementation of web services was not as complete as now. P.S.2: I don't pretend to create any kind of flame with patent issues or something like that, I just think that *maybe* patent issues might be even smoother with Web Services and I just would like anybody to confirm or deny this. Thank you again. ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, m�s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
