On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:25:47 -0700, ppetru@ppetru.net (Petru Paler) wrote:
Hi,
Almost a year ago I did a quick hack which added SOAP support to Zope. It really was something I played with in order to understand what this whole SOAP thingie is about. To my surprise, though, my web server access logs show that people have actually downloaded it :)
Now, one year later, the situation is different (a couple Python SOAP libraries, as opposed to only one) so I'm looking into actually finishing (or redoing) the SOAP support for Zope. For this, I would very much apreciate comments -- especially from those guys who already used my patch, or think they are going to use Zope and SOAP in the future.
I was really excited when you first released this SOAP patch. I *thought* I was going to be using it alot, but to my suprise Ive never actually looked at it (sorry). I guess the problem is that xml-rpc is almost good enough, and the advantage of xml-rpc being in the standard Zope core is enough that I cant justify the time experimenting with an alternative. (I do use xml-rpc alot) However, the fact that SOAP support was available if we needed it was enough to tip the balance in Zope's favor for a couple major projects last year. I do hope SOAP support is integrated into the Zope core this time round. Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com