Hi guys, Commercially speaking I see a need for a better Web Services support in Squeak/Pharo, here I mean both SOA and REST Web Services.
XML-RPC is closer to SOA Web Services so this project could be changed to improve current SOAP and add the WSDL support? We currently have SoapOpera [1] and SoapCore [2] from Masashi Umezawa, maybe his work can be a good starting point to extend it and make a really good and useful SOA Web Services implementation in Smalltalk? I namely use SOA Web Services (SOAP+WSDL) quite frequently on my commercial projects in VisualWorks. With good tools it is certainly the easiest way to connect to other systems and to other languages/technologies. And remember: SOAP means Simple Object Access Protocol. While that Simple is nowadays very questionable, that Object Access is certainly not. I mean, SOAP is a protocol to pass messages between objects in different OO systems. Smalltak as an OO system therefore needs a good SOA Web Services support! [1] http://map.squeak.org/package/d17a284e-6a2d-4fea-b4bc-65c82bc45001 [2] http://map.squeak.org/package/dab9b621-00d2-41c3-966c-458bf62b8008 On 30. 06. 2010 20:53, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > Philippe this is good that you reacted. The point of esug is to support > actions > that will help people so probably XML-RCP is not a really good choice. > Now what would be good is to have a map of current techno and their support > for smalltalk. Then act to fill up the gaps. > > Stef > >> >> It doesn't strike me as a forward looking investment. IMHO XML-RCP is >> something that will only get used less in the future, not more. The >> value you get from an XML-RCP implementation will become less and less >> as fewer services support it. >> >> But then again ESUG is free to spend their money on what they seem fit. >> If they disagree or decide the current use is big enough, I have no >> problem at all with this. >> >> Cheers >> Philippe -- Janko Mivšek AIDA/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
