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[Jake McGraw]

If you'd like some general information on Web Service development, check out
the site for a class I took 2 years ago:

http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mgovinda/courses/cs547/index.html

- jake

On Nov 26, 2007 1:32 PM, Rob Marscher <rmarscher at beaffinitive.com> wrote:

> On Nov 25, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
>
> I've been looking around and I see a number of frameworks and standalone
> apps where you can give it the WSDL(sp?) definition file for an XML/RPC type
> application and it will generate a bunch of stub classes for you to
> send/receive requests and automatically parse the xml responses into objects
> or arrays.
>
> Anyone used any of them, and if so what's your favorite time saver?
>
>
> I recently used php's built-in SoapClient class.  You need to configure
> with --enable-soap.  It was great.  I couldn't believe how easy it was:
> $client = new SoapClient("
> http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/ndfdXML.wsdl");
> var_dump($client->__getFunctions());
> var_dump($client->__getTypes());
>
> SimpleXML can be used to parse XML responses from the Soap service.
>
> You asked for XML/RPC though... so then use Zend
> Framework's Zend_XmlRpc_Client class.  You can use the getProxy() method to
> get an object that lets you make the XML/RPC calls like their methods of
> that object.  It seems that if the server support introspection, you can use
> the getIntrospector() method as well.
>
> PHP5 is the bomb for working with these remote services.  All the heavy
> lifting is already done.
>
> -Rob
>
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