Easy answer to SOAP problems: IBM Datapower SOA Appliance. http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/datapower/
I played with this one: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/datapower-xi50 Current stuff is http://article.wn.com/view/2013/04/29/SOA_Software_Enables_REST_Services_on_IBM_DataPower_To_Help_/#/video Short version: you shell out EUR 250K + IBM consulting fees and this translates whatever SOAP you want into something readable and it does it fast. Note: this is one of the hottest selling products of IBM at the moment, they ship it by the boatload to banks and organisations requiring heavy security/regulations. Putting Pharo behind this makes for a pretty good solution. Phil On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > On 03 Jun 2013, at 18:08, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > > > In order to use SOAP properly you need a full namespace aware xml > parser, a xml schema parser, a WSDL parser plus code generator and the will > to abuse HTTP completely . > > Even if you build a perfect tool you'll maybe face the not so perfect > responses from the remote side. > > Even using the Java stack with all its tools and frameworks, SOAP is still > terrible. Especially if you have to interface with Microsofts' idea of SOAP > and web services. > > But Johan implied already that it would not be fun. > > On the other hand, I think that XML Support _is_ namespace aware. So it > would not be too hard to actually generate/parse SOAP messages for real. > You could get already pretty far with that, IMHO. > > Sven > > PS: In another life I did http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-soap/ - it > was never perfect but it kind of worked to talk to Google AdWords. > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > http://stfx.eu > Smalltalk is the Red Pill > > >
