Re: PostgreSQL and SOAP, suggestions?

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:54:13AM -0500, cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)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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