Hi Cara, Thanks much for your replies. I had quite a bit of experience with AXIS-J but not gSOAP or AXIS-c. Does gSOAP come with a WSDL parser with APIs to allow me traverse the various parts of a WSDL? In my application, I do not intend to deploy just one web services (so no code generation), I need to be able to parse any standard WSDLs.
Thanks much. Frank --- cara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank, > > Hi again. Just to cover our reasons for using gsoap: > > 1. It is older software ... fewer bugs. Lower risk > for a production project. > 2. We used it for an rpc wsdl, so nothing too fancy > as far as wsdls go. > 3. Our legacy C++ software developers and > integration team knows almost > nothing about building C++ code with ant (they > dislike all things java). > 4. Axis2 for java was not ready for production so > (at the time) we did not > consider Axis2/c. > > On 8/20/07, Samisa Abeysinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Frank Zhou wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am trying to build a web service application > in c++, > > > and now investigate to see if AXIS2/c can > satisfy my > > > needs. Specifically, I have the following > > > requirements: > > > > > > (1) The library supports common web services > standards > > > like SOAP/HTTP/WSDL et cetera. I will use it to > build > > > a web service client application (web service > > > consumer). > > > > > Axis2/C can handle SOAP over HTTP. But there are > some TODOs pending in > > WSDL space. > > > (2) It should provides a rich set of APIs for me > to > > > traverse through a WSDL and make SOAP/HTTP > calls. In > > > particular, I need a WSDL parser so that I can > parse > > > a > > > WSDL (given the WSDL file or the URL)to get the > > > definitions. I DO NOT NEED TO CONVERT THE WSDL > TO > > > C++ code, just need to parse a WSDL to get the > > > definitions, later on I will traverse the > parsed > > > objects to get the services, operations, > messages > > > and types (XML schemas) et cetera to build my > only > > > datastore for a given WSDL. This way I can > > > dynamically handle different WSDLs in my > application > > > without generating the c++ code stubs every > time. > > > > > As mentioned earlier, there is a piece of code > written in Axis2/C called > > woden, that can deal with the WSDL functionality > that you are looking for. > > Unfortunately that is not in the main source tree, > because we could not > > maintain it - due to lack of contributors in that > space. > > At some point, however, someone will again start > looking into that, at > > which point you would have WSDL handling features. > > > (3) The library is in c++ and available for > > > multi-platforms, like windows, linux and unix et > > > cetera. > > > > > Axis2/C is a C library, that works on Windows, > Solaris, MacOS and Linux. > > > Please let me know if AXIS2/c is a good choice > to me. > > > and how it is compared to gSOAP? > > > > > I am not in a position to do a formal comparison > on Axis2/C vs. gSOAP. > > However, here is an overview: > > - Axis2/C comes with Apache license, and gSOAP > comes with GNU license > > - Axis2/C is just two years old, gSOAP has > been around for much longer > > - Axis2/C is based on Axis2 architecture, an > architecture designed > > to cope with extensions and addition of new WS-* > spec implementations. > > You would have to refer to gSOAP site on their > architecture > > - Axis2/C already have full WS-Security and > WS-RM implementations, > > to my knowledge, gSOAP do not have those specs > implemented fully. > > (http://www.bloglines.com/blog/samisa?id=57) > > - Axis2/C has a comparatively simple > deployment model. You get > > Apache2 and IIS modules with Axis2/C. If you are > using apache module to > > deploy, it is one off configuration. But if gSOAP, > you have to configure > > Apache server for each and every service that you > cant to deploy. > > - Axis2/C has the ability to support many other > transports. It > > already support HTTP and TCP. WSO2 WSF/C has > implemented an XMPP > > transport and one of the GSOC students is > implementing and SMTP > > transport. To my knowledge, gSOAP only support > HTTP transport > > > > HTH > > > > Regards, > > Samisa... > > > > > > > Thanks very much. > > > Frank > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > > Need a vacation? Get great deals > > > to amazing places on Yahoo! 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