[Zope-dev] Web Services for Zope

[Brian Lloyd]

> i've been very curious, what the plan is for attacking the no 
> magic problem 
> described on the wiki. my understanding is this isn't possible without 
> altering the publishing process. i guess i was curious if the 
> component based 
> publisher that was talked about at ipc9 was ever going to see the 
> light of 
> day or if there was another strategy that would work as well.

I think that components will ultimately be the answer to this. 
You would basically create a "SOAP publishing component" (or 
one might be provided but not necessarily activated by default) 
and associate it with interfaces supported by the objects that 
you want to publish via SOAP.

I encourage people interested in this to be sure to pay attention 
to the ongoing component architecture work at:

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/

...and be sure to provide any feedback you have. There is enough
detail there now that developers should be able to start getting 
an idea of how such a thing would work - or at least start asking 
more detailed questions about the grey areas :)

Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com
Software Engineer  540.361.1716       
Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com