[Exist-open] Upgrade of Soap Servicess

[Thamm, R. <rus...@ds...>]

Hi guys,

I have been doing a little work on the SOAP services. As far as I can tell there are two major problems with the current services:

- RPC/encoded services are susceptible to interoperability problems (bad ju-ju)
- The services provide limited functionality

I have converted the current services into "Wrapped Style" (variation on document/literal). According to Anne Thomas Manes, this is the recommended way to convert RPC/encoded services to WS-I compliant services.

Fortunately this requires no changes to the Java Client software although some modification of my GSOAP based C++ client was required.

Hopefully this will improve interoperability.

I have also started to implement some of the extra functionality provided by the XML-RPC client. So far I have implemented:

storeBinaryResource
getBinaryResource
getCollectionDesc

I have a few questions:

1) Are there any other issues with the Soap services that need addressing?

2) Which extra functions should be implemented? 

3) Are there any instructions/procedures re submitting patches to the project?


Cheers
Russell Thamm