by WVerkley >> Sun, 6 Aug 2000 2:13:34 GMT
For those that dont know, SOAP is a very simple XML-based protocol for making procedure calls to remote services, mainly over HTTP. I'd recommend anyone to look into this, and also the MS SOAP toolkit that MS just released (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/), it is extremely easy to use, and very powerful.
Is Jade planning to officially support this in the near-future?
Im assuming because of the increased COM support in 5.1 (i dont have it yet) you can already do a lot in Jade with it. The MS Toolkit features a *very* easy-to-use "proxy" object which you can use to make SOAP calls to external systems.
But it would be nice if you could actually make calls directly *into* jade using SOAP. This would be great for jade-to-jade interconnectivity, and for interconnectivity with external apps.i.e. apps built in the new Microsoft ...NET platform.
It wouldnt be hard to implement. MS make available all their source for the SOAP toolkit, and it includes an engine (ROPE) for parsing a SOAP call once recieved. Using this, it should be fairly easy to do a simple Jade SOAP hack based on the JadeCompiler object, or better, the JOM sendMsg library call.
Wilfred.