On 01 Aug 2001 15:02:47 -0400, Brian Lloyd wrote:
(Brian blathered:) I will volunteer to start a separate proposal to try to combine the current SOAP proposals with my own biased agenda :) This is something that will _really_ require a group of people who care to pay attention and provide feedback (especially on the use cases, though I'll volunteer to make the best start I can).
Ok, I've finished a whack at a proposal, for those interested:
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/WebServicesForZope
I'm pretty sure the most controversial part will be my stance on automagically exposing everything via SOAP the way we do now with xml-rpc :^) I have my fire-retardant skivvies on, so let me know what you think and let's make hashing that out the first order of business :^)
I commented on the site, but thought I would post some of my concerns here as well ... get a broad base, so to speak. My concerns of the 'magic', would be dependant n whether or not your stance includes a limit on SOAP support. i agree that Web Servies != SOAP, but IMO, if your proposal means that SOAP support in Zope is only available in a Web Services ... 'namespace', then we will be sorely lacking in someting quite useful. For example, I have a GUI for user management that uses XML-RPC right now. I would MUCH prefer to use SOAP for it. It really is not a webservice, and it would be a mistake to make it one, just to get to it with SOAP. I am very interested, and knee-deep in Web Services development (both in and out of the web) right now, so consider me in on the proposal process. :) Be warned, I am rather opinionated (though open) on it so far. :) I would like to see Zope be an excellent development environment/server for SOAP Services. Bill Anderson
Brian Lloyd brian@zope.com Zope Corporation www.zope.com
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