The folks at WSO2 have created a Ruby binding for their enterprise Web Services stack, WSF/C. WSF/Ruby supports SOAP 1.2 and many WS-* specifications, including WS-Addressing, WS-Security, and WS-Reliable Messaging. Built on Apache Axis2, Rampart, and Sandesha2, it is interoperable with .NET and J2EE SOAP implementations. Now that SOAP has been decoupled from Rails, this has potential as a solid replacement.
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Industrial-strength Web Services for Ruby
January 14th, 2008 — Rails, Web Services, Ruby
Getting Started with SOAP4R
September 12th, 2007 — Web Services, Ruby
SOAP4R is a Ruby library for accessing Web Services via SOAP. Recently I had a chance to explore SOAP4R. Here's how to get started with it.
Is SOAP dying?
September 8th, 2007 — Web Services
I've been asked a number of times whether SOAP is becoming obsolete. Cited examples:
- Amazon offers both SOAP and REST interfaces to its API. According to Amazon, REST was used 85% of the time.
- Google quietly dropped its SOAP API in late 2006.
- Ruby on Rails 2.0 will drop its SOAP API in favor of a built-in native REST API.
So does this signify the end of SOAP?
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