Version 15 of Web Service

Updated 2008-09-23 11:43:09 by LV

CL notes that "Web Service" (WS) is an exceptionally confusing and misleading label, which he intends to explain here in the second half of April 2003. In the meantime, ...

See http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a//webservices/2002/02/12/webservicefaqs.html . for info on web services.

LV Wow - it's three years later, and now web services are really beginning to make an impact. More info would really be useful. Anyone have a gentle introduction?


Bryan Oakley notes: the above article states 'The easiest way to get started with Web services is to learn XML-RPC'. An even easier way is to download Gerald Lester's Web Services for Tcl and follow the examples. In maybe 15-20 minutes you can create a web service and a client to connect to that web service. It doesn't get much easier than that. (admittedly, the above article was written in 2002 so they can hardly be blamed for the oversight :-)


GWL see also Web Services for Tcl: http://code.google.com/p/tclws/ , and http://www.tclscripting.com/articles/nov06/article1.html for an example of using the library to call the Google SOAP Search API.


LV Gerald, if one is wanting to interact with someone's existing web service - say Google, etc. will your client be sufficient?

GWL Yes, in general.

LV What kind of information does one need to have to write an application that interacts with a web service?

GWL You need the WSDL and Tcl 8.5 and definition of what the web service methods do/want.


See also http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WebServices .


See also SOAP, WSDL, WebServices