Web services

[bryan rasmussen]

If the idea is to provide better support for SOAP, hence the need for
WSDL, XML Schema, then I don't know about this, given that my
understanding of it in the WebServices community was that it had
already been passed by, defeated. The current debate is SOAP and Rest.

There certainly seems to be a good deal of argument as to whether SOAP
will end up winning in the long run.

Perhaps something to look at instead is EBMS.  Ebms extends SOAP, but
because it has a particular semantics to the message it does not need
support for XML Schema, WSDL to use.
spec: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/documents/ebMS_v2_0.pdf

EBMS does not need to be implemented with the other ebxml
specifications, but if it is synergistic benefits accrue. I am
thinking in the context of JEAI project etc. that a full EBXML
implementation could be a big selling point. EBXML seems to be moving
pretty well in the far east currently.



On 11/7/05, Mikael Karlsson <mikael.karlsson@REDACTED> wrote:
> Interesting!
>
> It seems also that some discovered that sending those XML messages on the line
> take some bandwidth and processing power for binding (oops what a surprise)
> so there is a proposal for "Fast Web Services" which in practice seems to be
> an ASN.1 representation of XML Schema.
> Since Erlang has an ASN1 encoder/decoder this might be something to look
> closer at.
> Refs:
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/fastWS/
> http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml/fws.htm
> http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml/tutorial-fws.htm
>
> /Mikael
>
> måndag 07 november 2005 10:33 skrev Joe Armstrong (AL/EAB):
> > How about rnc? - I have a relax NG verifyer (in Erlang)
> > which I might be persuaded to part with.
> >
> > /Joe
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED
> > > [mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED]On Behalf Of Ulf Wiger
> > > (AL/EAB)
> > > Sent: den 7 november 2005 09:37
> > > To: chandru; Anindya Mozumdar
> > > Cc: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> > > Subject: RE: Web services
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > One thing notably missing in this regard is support for
> > > XMLSchema.
> > >
> > > Any takers?  (:
> > >
> > > /Uffe
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED
> > > > [mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED] On Behalf Of chandru
> > > > Sent: den 7 november 2005 09:18
> > > > To: Anindya Mozumdar
> > > > Cc: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> > > > Subject: Re: Web services
> > > >
> > > > On 07/11/05, Anindya Mozumdar <anindya@REDACTED> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >     I am relatively new to both Erlang and Web Services, so
> > > >
> > > > pardon my
> > > >
> > > > > rather silly question - Are there are any
> > >
> > > API's/implementations in
> > >
> > > > > Erlang for Web Services (SOAP, WSDL and UDDI), like the
> > > >
> > > > ones readily
> > > >
> > > > > avaiable in Java ?
> > > >
> > > > There is a basic soap-client and soap-server written by
> > >
> > > Erik Reitsma.
> > >
> > > > I have version 0.2 of it and I can send it to you if you want
> > > > it. But it is quite basic. The good news is that the most of
> > > > the tools you need to build Web Services are already
> > > > available :-) You have yaws/inets for a webserver,
> > > > ibrowse/inets for a HTTP client and xmerl for XML parsing.
> > > > You just have to implement the bits you need from various
> > > > standards :-)
> > > >
> > > > cheers
> > > > Chandru
>
>