Re: Web services on guile

[Andy Wingo]

On Sun 23 May 2010 11:25, Sascha Ziemann <address@hidden> writes:

> 2010/5/22 Romel R. Sandoval Palomo <address@hidden>:
>> I think I have four alternatives:
>>
>>  1. Keep the web service consumption part of the client in C using gSOAP
>>  2. Write a binding of gSOAP library for Guile
>>  3. Write a web services library for Guile from cero
>>  4. Forget about PHP and use ONC RPC
>
> I found it quite complicated to handle complex data values with PHPs
> SOAP-Server features. It will be much easier to use a s-list paser for
> PHP and send the data as a-list.

I would agree, FWIW. I wanted to implement XML-RPC at one point in
tekuti, but decided not to after looking at the spec. An s-expression
serializer/unserializer is fairly simply to write, you avoid
distribution problems that way, and you also avoid impedance mismatches.

Andy
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