I suggest REST, which is much easier than soap and more resilient to change than xml-rpc. It also seems to be "winning" on the open internet.
As for help on [rest-discuss], read RESTful Web Service from O'Reilly. Also, here's a great writeup: http://bitworking.org/news/How_to_create_a_REST_Protocol -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us P.S. have you looked at Google Gears for another approach? > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of iain duncan > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 6:34 PM > To: turbogears > Subject: [TurboGears] tgWebservices, xml-rpc, soap? advice? > > > Hi helpful list people. I'm going to be building a minimal > booking system for a small business that will be used from > three locations. It's very important that they be able to > access the data even if their local internet connection goes > down so there will need to be a local and a remote version of > the db running at all times. I'm intending on having some > components handled from a wxpython interface and some from a > browser ( depending on the user and action ) and would like > the whole mess backended by SA. > > I'm totally new to the whole REST/soap/services/xml-rpc > thing. If anyone feels like sharing any of the below, it > would be much appreciated: > > - good resources ( books included ) > - good examples > - their opinion on the smart way to do this > - what specifically I might want to look at > > Thanks! > Iain > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

