> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:35:25 +0100
> From: "Matthew J. Dovey" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Then have we made a horrible, horrible mistake in the way
> > we've defined SRW?  It it basically don't work with existing
> > toolkits, do we need to throw it all up in the air and make
> > 2.0 that uses rpc/encoded?
>
> <sigh> How did I know you would say that...

Hey, when I don't have any facts, my only contribution is to ask
awkward questions :-)

> [stuff]

OK, that all seems pretty convincing.

> However, why not take a few steps backwards and use RPC/Encoded to
> support the out of date toolkits - that way we can ensure
> interoperability problems with newer toolkits, ensure complete lack
> of adoption by the wider WebService community (since it wo'n't be
> WS-I compliant), ensure that it can't be adopted up by UK government
> funded projects (that includes JISC and academic funded projects)
> since they are supposed to follow the e-GIF framework which states
> WS-I as a requirement, and I suspect US government projects too.

That doesn't sound like such a good idea.

        "The wonderful thing about the SOAP standard is that
        there are so many of it to choose from."

Reminds me of:

        "At one point Microsoft had at least nine separate
        internal implementations of SOAP, and only recently
        have these all been consolidated ... into four."
                -- Nat Friedman.

> The problem toolkit appears to the the Perl one (and apparently the
> version available about 12 months ago at that).

OK, someone out there out to try with the newest SOAP::Lite.

Thing is, I've just downloaded the "Current Recommend Stable Release",
version 0.55, from
        http://soaplite.com/download.html
and the most recent date in the "Changes" file is from April 2002.
Yeesh!  Two and a quarter years old!

The "Current Development Release" is version 0.60-Beta-1, which I've
now also downloaded.  And the most recent change is from <ta-dah!>
18th August 2003 ...  Very nearly a year ago.

So maybe SOAP::Lite is just dead and we should stop worrying about it?
But if that's true, what is now The One True Way of doing SOAP under
Perl?  Or is Perl just too tasteful for SOAP?

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