Python, Java, Web Services, Help!

May 16, 2008 12:30

I know very little about web services (from the POV of people who know about web services; probably quite a lot if you don't care ( Read more... )

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bateleur May 16 2008, 12:11:39 UTC
It's a can of worms.

Short answer: the type information is optional, but lightweight implementation are probably right to demand it because it's really easy to break everything when it's absent.

Long answer: web service interoperability.

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gaspode May 16 2008, 13:20:59 UTC
Blibble Blibble Blibble ? ;-)

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waistcoatmark May 16 2008, 22:00:15 UTC
I know python, but this SOAP crap is a can of worms. The hoops we have to jump through at work in order to support C++, C# and java SOAP classes are too numerous to mention. If we go loest common denominator and use the most basic, verbose and inefficient XML we can think of then it just about works. And even then we often have to put "that list of Foo nodes into a Foos node" or something similar.

Bah: what was wrong with CORBA?

Actually don't answer that. Or I might have to start telling you what's wrong with ASN.1

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