[Zope-dev] Re: SOAP Support for ZOPE

[Tres Seaver]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Richard wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:54 am, Aruna Kathiria wrote:
>>
>>>I did some work regarding SOAP support on ZOPE and published this
>>>document on zope.org.
>>
>>Is there really no interest in getting SOAP support into the Zope
>>core? I've got a guy working on some Microsoft Word stuff at the
>>moment, and he was dumbfounded when he discovered that Zope doesn't
>>support SOAP. In his words, "everyone supports SOAP". Sigh :)
> 
> 
> There is probably interest, but it needs motivated people like Aruna and
> you to push it.
> 
> 
>>Are there any objections to getting Aruna's patches into the 2.8
>>codebase? I'd be willing to do the work - but note I know practically
>>nothing about SOAP - I just want to be able to use it.
> 
> 
> One problem is that Aruna's approach introduces dependencies to external
> modules: fpconst, and a patched SOAPy. If these can be resolved, why
> not.

Because of those dependencies, I think support "in the core" is not 
feasible.  However, I believe that it should be possible to create a 
product which solves those issues.  This product would either need to 
monkey-patch the publisher (as outlined by John Zinit earlier in the 
thread) or else register a new kind of server, which could be configured 
(like the WebDAV source server) to listen on its own port.

For an example of such a Product, see "ZServerSSL",
http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/zope/zssl/

Tres.
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