--- Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 02:48 AM, Jan > Schenkel wrote: > > > --- Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I thought I had read or heard somewhere that > >> Revolution supports > >> XML-RPC. But searching docs turns up no clues. > >> > >> Anyone got a pointer? > >> > > > > Hi Dan, > > > > Revolution supports SOAP, which one might say > > supersedes XML-RPC. > > Have a look at \Sample stacks\SOAP_Toolbox.rev > > > > Hope this helped, > > > > Jan Schenkel. > > > Jan, > > I do not think soap supersedes XML-RPC.... Soap is > to complicated to > use, xml-rpc is simple and does the job well, i > never knew a project > that really needed soap, xml-rpc always live up to > the job for me. > > the sites: > http://www.soapware.org > http://www.xmlrpc.com > > Are both from Userland, they've got the specs, the > implementations and > a list of public avaiable services. xml-rpc has more > services avaiable > and is easier to implement. As for Dan question, he > can implement > xml-rpc by himself (it's not that hard!!!) or if > he's using MacOS he > can call applescripts to the xml-rpc call for him > and pass back the > results!!!! > > Cheers! > Andre >
Hi Andre, Glad to see 'granddaddy' XML-RPC is still alive and kicking ; while I would agree that it is easier to use, nearly all of the Web Service implementations in development tools (such as in WebObjects 5.2, 4th Dimension 2003, and our beloved Revolution 2.0) are concentrating around SOAP. Granted, the specs for SOAP 1.2 are hefty (which is why it is no longer an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol) but they offer a lot of enterprise-level features, such as parts that are forwarded to and handled by different web services, etc. In most cases, overkill. But it's the standard, so we have to follow suit. However, implementing XML-RPC using the 'post' command and employing the revXML library, should be a breeze ; and I bet you could learn a lot from the SOAP toolbox if you were to build a library for it. Best regards, Jan Schenkel. ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
