Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> Have anyone tried making a "SOAPConnect" ala XPConnect and BlackConnect? The
> idea would be to CreateInstance on a SOAP URL and then the SOAPConnect code
> would build a local proxy object. This would make the use of SOAP
> transparent to the browser.
>
> I know there is some SOAP support in Mozilla currently but I don't know how
> it works.
We (rayw, vidur, jband) are working on xpcom SOAP support. rayw
has posted recently in the netscape.public.mozilla.xml newsgroup
about the support in the tree and a bit about where it is going.
That is probably a better newsgroup in which to discuss this
stuff. The code in the tree (as I understand things) is
functional but primitive. We are working toward a higher level
system that can read wsdl files and can map services to look like
xpidl interfaces that can then be called by any language with
xpcom mapping support; e.g. C++, JS, python, etc. Vidur is on the
hook to write up and post a technical overview of our scheme. (I
was on the hook for that, but I dragged my feet too long :)
John.
