Hello,

Andi Gutmans wrote:
> 
> At 09:13 PM 1/1/2002 -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> >I already have some SOAP components written in this meta-language. If I
> >work on something that would make it easier to provide and consume Web
> >servers (and I have been doing some work), I will invest my time better
> >on doing it with this meta-language rather than something that is PHP
> >specific.
> 
> It's a shame that if you have something good that you're not willing to
> share it with the PHP community.

You must have got me wrong. I already released a SOAP server base class
that lets implement SOAP services in PHP just by subclassing it and
implementing the specific methods that provide your Web services without
having to worry with the complications of SOAP protocol. This class was
written in MetaL but the PHP version generated by MetaL compiler was
made available here last year:

http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/251

This class does not generate a WSDL definition but it was suficient to
write this SOAP interface to ezmlm. I needed this for a project where I
needed a programatic way to remotely count how many subscribers there
are in a list, subscribe, unsubscribe and verify if a subscriber is
already subscribed. These classes were also written in MetaL but the PHP
version is available here:

http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/177

As you may see here, I have been sharing a lot:

http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/top/

http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/author/1

Half of the questions I have been sharing here were written in MetaL,
despite that is irrelevant for people that been using them because they
only see PHP code and HTML documentation (documentation was
automatically generated from MetaL source).

As for MetaL itself, it is not yet ready for release because I am still
working on unexpected challenges to make it fit Java limitations, but
the goal is to release it as an Open Source project after I finish make
the proof of concept that is generating programs from MetaL source code
into several languages (PHP, Java and Perl) and demonstrate that they
work seeminglessly. After 2 years and a half of development that is
about to happen in a matter of a few weeks.

Meanwhile I already presented MetaL in O'Reilly Open Source Conference
2001 in San Diego and PHP Conference 2001 in Frankfurt. The slides of
the presentations are available here:

http://www.meta-language.net/

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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