xml-dev - Re: SOAP serialization

[mark hu <mark@fintrack.com>]

Hi, Andrew:
    Right, the SOAP messages should not be affected by using any kind of
tool, and when SOAP messages reaches the destination, people have to find a
way to parse it and transfor them to the format that current understood by
the whole organization - this'll involves different technologies to adapt,
surely XML by itself has a kind of spirit - and I guess the reason that SOAP
comes out is because we can not do anything using pure XML as of now, just
the same as we can not do everything using Java - even the spirit of Java is
conding once, running everywhere - it still involves different VM
technologies, so the same applies to XML, personally I do not believe the
spirit of XML is still the same as it gave out orginally, and it'll keep
changing as the new technologies and ideas come out, so as of a worker, I
just try to find out a nice tool for both CORBA and COM, and I do think
there's some one want to write SOAP messages Listener in COBOL - even if
it's possible, cheers.


mark hu
646-872-7341 (cell phone)
"breath, open up eyes and think"
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 4:56 PM
Subject: RE: SOAP serialization


> To be even more emphatic:  SOAP is about wire protocol, not
implementation.
> A sender X should be able to send a message to receiver Y and it does not
> matter whether receiver Y is implemented by a CGI script or an ASP script
or
> a COM object class or whatever.  The semantics are in the message.
>
> Various toolkits (such as ROPE) provide programmatic interfaces that
> simplify the construction of SOAP messages or processing of them on
receipt.
> But, these are convenience APIs, not part of the SOAP specification.  The
> semantics of the message are unaffected by whether you use such a toolkit
or
> not.
>
> This is not about proprietary protocols that happen to be serialized in
XML.
> This is about an extensible protocol true to the spirit of XML.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark hu [mailto:mark@fintrack.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:09 PM
> To: KenNorth; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: SOAP serialization
>
>
> Thanks for you arcticle ref, it's a good article, but the point is : ROPE
is
> only the actural word for NT (win2000) side, not for Unix side - we do not
> have to use ROPE for anywhere besides MS Windows ( Surely MS SOAP Toolkit
> and its gerenated Listener only can be configured and run under MS IIS
> ....), even in MSDN article -  Unix side had a Java based Web Service
> Listener which getting SOAP messages ( in this MSDN sample; SOAP messages
> were passed in through ROPE which is staying at Windows side ) and then
> passed by a SOAP parser, then calling relative Objects ( in this case
CORBA
> ....), so the whole picture only Web Services part incudes ROPE ( which is
> really MS thing, designed fro VS 6.0 and coming VS 7.0 ), and this is
based
> on you put your web-services up and running under MS Windows, what if
> somewhere that does not have MS IIS server and run NetScape or IBM, in
this
> case We DO NEED A TOOLKIT - CALLED "SUN SOAP Toolkit" or "IBM SOAP
Toolkit"
> which can generate the same results but based on CORBA and targetting OS
> besides MS Windows, and I am using MS Toolkit right now - and the actual
Web
> Services Listener is done through ISAPI ( which bust up performence quite
> bit ... ), I like this tool - since the SDLWizard Toolkit right now only
> recognize COM OBJECT only, I do hope they can come out a new one which can
> CORBA also, and I bet they will - again, ROPE is COM thing, not for JAVA -
> oh, surely u can generate a Java wrapper class and make a Java container
for
> ROPE, so your Java people can use it very easily - but, this is not the
> point here - basicly, MS SOAP Toolkit for now, is targetting VS 6.0 and
> based on COM only ... sorry, man.
>
> mark hu
> 646-872-7341 (cell phone)
> "breath, open up eyes and think"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: KenNorth <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
> To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: SOAP serialization
>
>
> > > Maybe some of those, but my guess is probably not SOAP on a ROPE.
> >
> > MSDN has only a single article that mentions the Remote Object Proxy
> Engine
> > (ROPE):
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/articles/hbinterop_core.asp
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