soap question newbie

[Scott Purcell <sp...@vertisinc.com>]

Hello,

I have been using xml-rpc for some simple data conversions between two disperate systems. Like everything, as time goes along, I am finding myself demanding more and more from it.

Problem: 
I need to receive more information back than current xml-rpc allows. I have been using hashes, but I really have the need to send back a 'Hashtable, String and some Ints': 
>From my investigation it appears that I could do this with soap and a DTD, but I am not sure.

Is this the kind of niche that I should investigating using soap for? If someone could give me a little info, it would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

RE: soap question newbie

[Anne Thomas Manes <an...@manes.net>]

Scott,

You do it with SOAP and WSDL (as opposed to DTD). 
I recommend that you start with Axis: http://ws/apache.org/axis.
It's the new, improved version of Apache SOAP.

Anne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Purcell [mailto:spurcell@vertisinc.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 4:07 PM
> To: soap-user@xml.apache.org
> Subject: soap question newbie
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have been using xml-rpc for some simple data conversions 
> between two disperate systems. Like everything, as time goes 
> along, I am finding myself demanding more and more from it.
> 
> Problem: 
> I need to receive more information back than current xml-rpc 
> allows. I have been using hashes, but I really have the need to 
> send back a 'Hashtable, String and some Ints': 
> From my investigation it appears that I could do this with soap 
> and a DTD, but I am not sure.
> 
> Is this the kind of niche that I should investigating using soap 
> for? If someone could give me a little info, it would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott