Hi Chuck, I've got bits and pieces of something along these lines, but I just haven't found time to finish it. This is not a small project, so I'd like to know as well if anybody else is working on something similar?
You've asked the right question Chuck. But the part that is missing is the step between WSDL and TCF which is the HTTP/SOAP callable wrapper. My thinking is to create a "Wizard" style application that reads in a selected TCF (with all the defined functionality you create in Witango code), and the Wizard spits out a generated TAF file as the wrapper to expose the TCF's Methods (and their input/output Parameters) for the Web. The TAF wrapper would of course translate the HTTP/SOAP request and response to and from the TCF. This is what constitutes exposing a TCF (or COM or Bean for that matter) as a Remote Object or Web Service. The Wizard would also generate the WSDL. A WSDL file is the "definition" of a TCF's Methods in SOAP readable format (i.e., XML). Having something like this that supports the SOAP standard dynamically for Witango Classes would be better than writing one-off custom SOAP implementations everytime - wouldn't you say Chuck? With enough work, the Wizard could "publish" a TCF as a Service in a few mouse clicks. In an ideal world it would be great to have this as part of the Dev Studio. But starting as a 3rd Party product is good too :-) Any comments? Scott Cadillac, Witango.org - http://witango.org 403-281-6090 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Information for the Witango Developer Community --------------------- XML-Extranet - http://xmlx.ca 403-281-6090 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Well-formed Development (for hire) --------------------- -----Original Message----- From: "Chuck Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WiTango-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:58:09 -0500 Subject: Witango-Talk: TCF --> WSDL > Has anyone created a utility to create a WSDL for a TCF? Is it > possible, as > does the Soap Toolkit on a COM object? > > Thanks, > > Chuck Lockwood > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > LockData Technologies, Inc. > 309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428 > 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.lockdata.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > _ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
