Re: [Freecats-Dev] Dan's API - SOAP

[Dan Urist]

One thing I might add is that a very attractive part of the SOAP 
infrastructure is the WSDL piece. WSDL stands for "Web Services 
Description Language", and completely specifies the API. This makes 
writing clients particularly easy, since most SOAP development kits can 
parse the WSDL file and automagically provide functions based on it.

Unfortunately most WSDL files are written by software rather than 
humans, so they're not easy to parse (at least unless you pretty-print 
them). I tried to make mine as human-readable as possible, and used 
Google's as a template since they're heavily commented (they're 
available from http://www.google.com/apis/ if anyone's interested).

I'm still working on packaging my new server, almost there...
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Daniel J. Urist
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