Re: [Dynapi-Help] Re: DynAPI's XML-RPC/SOAP alternative

[Robin B. <ro...@re...>]

In article <200...@we...>, Raymond
Irving <xw...@ya...> writes
>
>The rpc used by dynapi is different from xml-rpc is
>called "SODA-RPC"
>

Well that looks good to me. Googling for it I don't see anything
obvious. Is there a definition somewhere?

>SODA-RPC might not be as powerful as SOAP, but it’s
>powerful enough to get the job done right
>
>Key Features:
>
> * Based on XML
> * Works behind firewalls 
> * Support older browsers such as NS4+ and IE4+ 
> * Doesn’t require an XML parser 
> * Doesn’t require any new software on client or
>server 
> * Supports Asynchronous and Synchronous calls. 
> * Supports server-side methods and error traps 
> * Can make multiple asynchronous/synchronous calls to
>the same service   
> * Can support complex data structures (e.g. objects,
>arrays, etc) 
> * Can be easily ported to any server-side language
>(perl, php, vbscript, jscript, etc) 
> * Simplify communications between the browser and the
>web server 
> * Support seven (8) data types: Undifined/null, Date,
>String, Integer, Float, Boolean, Array and Object
>(Associative Array)
>
>--
>Raymond  Irving
>
>--- Robin Becker <ro...@re...> wrote:
>> rpc/xmlrpc seems like the way to go. Soap is
>> overkill for most things.
>> Does PHP have any advantage over any other approach?
>> We use python+cgi
>> to do stateless xmlrpc and this has real advantages
>> in being very
>> portable. There are also numerous python xmlrpc
>> servers.
>
>
>
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Robin Becker