Re: ms soap/ apache

[George I Matkovits <ma...@uswest.net>]

IMHO some of the 'anal' aspects of Apache Soap are going to have fixes in the upcoming V2.1.
Regards - George
p.s. Is MS going to do something about the 'lax' issue? I KNOW MS is reading this list, so PLEASE respond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We 'the user community' would really like to interoperate :-)

Khondker Akhter wrote:

> is any effort being made to mediate the differences?? if the soap 1.1 spec is clear enough, then one of the two implementations (or maybe a little of both) is not adhering to the spec. does anyone know exactly what the differences are?? with a protocol like soap i would imagine many people would deploy it in a heterogenous environment (not pure java) and microsoft technologies being a major player it would be 'nice' if they 'just got along'
> Garrett Serack - x3 wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > YMMV: I'm not an Apache SOAP Expert by any amount..., but I've played
> > with the two a bit.
> >
> >         Yeah, apparently Apache's SOAP implementation is extremly anal,
> > and the MS soap client is fairly lax.
> >
> >         It appears that the Apache implementation is far too picky, and
> > requires certain things to be the way they want them, and they don't
> > let you work with it properly.
> >
> >         1. it appears that the namespace prefix for apache's soap stuff
> >         is hardwired at 'SOAP-ENV'... I can't even imagine why they did
> >         that.
> >
> >         2. Apache's implementation requires the xsi:type to be delcared
> >         for each parameter you are passing, even though the spec says
> >         it is optional ( to a point )
> >
> >         3. I've tried the latest stuff from the CVS repository too, and
> >         I couldn't even get the examples to work, and it required you
> >         to download about a billion packages that it depends on.
> >
> > I must confess that I'm a little frazzled at the Apache SOAP implementation.
> >
> > Gs
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Khondker Akhter [mailto:Khondker.Akhter@msdw.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 9:34 AM
> > To: soap
> > Subject: ms soap/ apache
> >
> > Hi, i am new to this group so pardon me if this has already been aasked
> > before: i am trying to have ms soap 2.0/vb on client and apache/soap on
> > server. the apache is rejecting all soap requests from the ms soap with
> > a "message could not be sent to its destination" is there a difference
> > in the soap implementation between ms and apache?? is there a
> > work-around that?? any comments/hints/directions would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > r
> >
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