Re: [Easysoap-developers] EasySoap

[Blaise St-L. <bst...@N-...>]

On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 12:26, Willem Duminy wrote:
> Thank you for the reply.
> 
> You'd be glad to know that I am convinced.  I got the SOAP client to call a 
> remote web service - and I must say, it is easier than I thought!  

Glad to here it! It's really an incredible toolkit, hats of to David for
creating it in such a clean way! :)

> 
> Is anyone working on the WSDL part of the problem?  What about implementing 
> some kind of XSLT based translator: from WSDL to a easySOAP definition?  
> 
The biggest problem is that in effect, you're asking for a way to
dynamically create functions in C++, which traditionally has been a
rather difficult thing to do in a strongly typed language. Since most of
the definitions of the Web Services are created at compile time, it
would be rather difficult to re-engineering the EasySoap libs to be able
to create a set of generic functions (not impossible mind you, just
difficult). As well, the WSDL spec isn't really ironed out yet, and
writing a WSDL parser is non-trivial. 

The simplest way i could see doing it is writting a WSDL to C++ parser
that writes out the stubs for you, but that's of limited use really.

If you want to take a crack at it, i'm sure people on this list have
some good ideas..

> I played around with xslt_proc on Redhat (I think it comes with GNOME), but 
> it does not work as I expected.  Anyone know of a better option?
> 

Not really, as i said, it's not an easy problem to tackle.


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