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I've started to mess around with this:<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.soaplite.com/">http://www.soaplite.com/</A><BR>
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The nice part is that I can drive it from Mozilla's Javascript and use the Mozilla Javascript debugger to figure things out.<BR>
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On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:01, Stuart wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>:
> Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br>:
> > Offshoot question: is there a consensus that moving to an XML-RPC
> > interface is what we should be doing (for a 'foreign interface')?
>
> As I'm not a Bugzilla developer myself, I make no claim that I can form
> part of the appropriate consensus. But in case my opinion is of any
interest:
>
> * I am not religiously attached to XML-RPC, an in fact have never worked
> with it before (except that I once brought up a test server just to
> get familar with it).
>
> * I do think XML-RPC the right thing in this situation. or at least
> none of the alternatives are obviously better to my eye.
>
> * We could design a custom transaction protocol with some minor advantages
> if we wanted to, but since Red Hat has already done the work for XML-RPC
> and there is even prototype client code out there (bugzuki) why not take
> advantage of that?
>
> XML-RPC seems like both the lazy and the smart solution in this case.
Forgive me, but I am at the Web Service Edge conference this week, and in
all the hype around Web Services, I can't help but toss in the idea that
SOAP might be a better solution, allowing for incorporating user
identification and signing along with transport independence. I haven't
developed any SOAP apps, but I have done some with XML-RPC, and I am not
really sure why XML-RPC would be any better than SOAP, (other than it may
already be done of course...)
-Stuart Donaldson-
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