Re: PostgreSQL and SOAP, suggestions?

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:54:13AM -0500, cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com wrote:
> > I have been planning to "test" the whole thing with a few .NET 
> > applications. I am currently using expat to parse the output to ensure 
> > that it all works correcty.
> 
> That, unfortunately, probably implies that your implementation is almost 
> totally non-interoperable.
> 
> You should put out of your mind the notion of being "correct."  Being 
> "correct" is pretty irrelevant if 80% of the requests that come from a VB.NET 
> client fail because Microsoft implemented part of their request differently 
> than what you interpreted as "correct."
> 
> The point is that "correctness" isn't the thing you need to aim for; what you 
> should aim for is interoperability with the important client implementations.
> 
> SOAP::Lite, .NET, probably some Java ones, C++ ones, and such.
> 
> Nobody does "correctness" testing; they do interoperability tests where they 
> try to submit requests to Apache AXIS, .NET, WebSphere, and the lot of other 
> important implementations.  If you're testing a server (as is the case here), 
> then the point is to run tests with a bunch of clients.
> 
> Head to the SOAP::Lite and Axis projects; you'll see matrices describing this 
> sort of thing...

Hmmm.  Can I reiterate my support of XML-RPC here?  <g>

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

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