Re: [boost] web service client based on boost?

From: Gregory Dai (gregory.dai_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-25 03:35:29

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Dean Michael Berris <
mikhailberis_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi Gregory,
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Gregory Dai <gregory.dai_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > Anyone tried building a web service client based on existing boost
> library
> > components such as asio? Like to share, or brag :-) about your
> experience?
> >
>
> When you say web service client, is this just generally anything that
> passes through HTTP?
>
> In this case there's a currently on-going effort (not making too much
> progress though with other "real world" things going on) to create a
> networking library on top of Boost.Asio as the base and provide simple
> implementations of protocol clients. Initial protocol scheduled to be
> implemented is an extensible HTTP client. You can get more information
> on the poject here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpp-netlib.
>

HTTP is a foundational protocol for web services, which include following
components:
* SOAP: XML based, and over HTTP (or other similar protocols).
* WSDL: XML based, which is where services are defined.
* UDDI: Protocol for discovering, describing, and integrating web services
out there in the Internet cloud.

> > A web service server is probably more involved. Doing a client should be
> a
> > nice first step, and helps build a common foundation forward.
>
> I personally have done a high performance HTTP container in C++ using
> modern C++ programming techniques (policies, metaprogramming, etc.) on
> top of Boost.Asio -- and it's proving to be very nice indeed. Can't
> share more than that though. ;-)

I'm sure your HTTP server is super cool, but web services are not just HTTP,
but include other components as well.