On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:54:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have been planning to "test" the whole thing with a few .NET > > applications. I am currently using expat to parse the output to ensure > > that it all works correcty. > > That, unfortunately, probably implies that your implementation is almost > totally non-interoperable. > > You should put out of your mind the notion of being "correct." Being > "correct" is pretty irrelevant if 80% of the requests that come from a VB.NET > client fail because Microsoft implemented part of their request differently > than what you interpreted as "correct." > > The point is that "correctness" isn't the thing you need to aim for; what you > should aim for is interoperability with the important client implementations. > > SOAP::Lite, .NET, probably some Java ones, C++ ones, and such. > > Nobody does "correctness" testing; they do interoperability tests where they > try to submit requests to Apache AXIS, .NET, WebSphere, and the lot of other > important implementations. If you're testing a server (as is the case here), > then the point is to run tests with a bunch of clients. > > Head to the SOAP::Lite and Axis projects; you'll see matrices describing this > sort of thing...
Hmmm. Can I reiterate my support of XML-RPC here? <g> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice > -- > (reverse (concatenate 'string "ac.notelrac.teneerf@" "454aa")) > http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/advocacy.html > "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using Windows > NT for mission-critical applications." --- What Yoda *meant* to say > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
