[erlang-questions] Erlang, WSDL, SOAP.

[Steve Davis]

Hi Christy,

That's pretty good advice for creating new web services. But then every 
implementation then becomes a new, custom design task. I was proposing that 
solving those two infrastructural problems (xmlns/xs) in a more generic way 
could make interoperability a little easier. I'd really like to "black box" 
the xml part into some standard transformation/codec and then largely 
forget about the details. That could I think do most of the heavy lifting 
with respect to creating direct replacements for existing services or 
creating clients to integrate with existing ones. 

It's certainly possible that I'm wrong about this. I suspect that java 
bindings end up looking like a mess because the data structures produced by 
xml are kind of inherently messy and over-complex already... so maybe any 
effort to create bindings is going to end up a mess?

Regards,
Steve

On Friday, May 2, 2014 10:02:27 AM UTC-5, Christy Watson wrote:
>
> I'm an erlang newbe, but even with java ee and code generation based on 
> a wsdl.  The actual mapping to the objects must be done by the 
> programmer, and is a mess.  The wsdl concept is great, I just think the 
> standard is to overly complicate the implementation.  Remember all a 
> wsdl is for is to say to the user of the service "if you send me 
> __________ I'll send you ____________ back".  So others have 
> auto-generated themselves into a mess.  Ask yourself what you really 
> need to do to get from input to output, then map your algorithm... 
> you'll probably end up with a much more efficient piece of software than 
> an auto-generated jaxWS mess. 
>
>
> On 04/30/2014 08:17 PM, Steve Davis wrote: 
> > has been that the issues surrounding web services are not the WSDL but 
> > resolving other technologies that it uses: i.e. the resolution of 
> > namespace mapping and schema analysis. 
> > 
> > 1) It's pretty obvious that namespaces (aka packages, etc) introduce 
> > many indirection concerns (consider the earlier experiment in erlang 
> > with module "packages"). 
> > 
> > 2) The issue with xml schema seems to be the underlying DTD 
>
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