Re: [Caml-list] SOSS - SOAP server for OCaml

[Stefan Lampe <slampe@optusnet.com.au>]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:51:25AM +0900, Stefan Lampe wrote:
>   
>> I'd like to announce that I've released a SOAP server for OCaml.
>>
>> It's available at http://www.caterpillarjones.org/soss
>>
>> An overview follows below, but I should mention two things,
>> one: it's still alpha code, I have not used it extensively yet, and
>> two: it makes extensive use of OCamlduce, which may be of
>> interest to some people here.
>>     
>
> Oh interesting.  Are you aware of our (cduce-implemented)
> SOAP client?  http://merjis.com/developers/oc-soap
>
> Rich.
>   
Yes, originally I didn't intend to write a SOAP server, I just wanted to 
use one - so I looked around for SOAP and OCaml and found OC-SOAP. I 
then thought I might be able to extend OC-SOAP, but in the end I chose 
to map from OCaml types to a schema rather than from schema to an OCaml 
types. For the server side this made more sense, and is nice, in a 
way... SOSS and OC-SOAP complement each other well.

I may soon add a client feature to SOSS, but it will never work with a 
generic SOAP service, since it will be generated from the OCaml server 
side interface file - rather than the more public WSDL. It would only 
provide a solution for an OCaml client with OCaml server where the 
developers of each are in close contact with each other. For myself 
though, I only wanted to develop a server side application in OCaml and 
develop a client in another language - which is why I haven't added this 
feature yet, though most of the glue is, by default, already written.

I think I may have already read in a message somewhere that you 
recommended CDuce after using it for OC-SOAP, but if anyone else is 
reading this that is interested in manipulating XML in an OCaml 
application, I found OCamlduce to be very clear, concise and expressive. 
I was very impressed.

Stefan