[MarkLogic Dev General] Exposing content via Web services

[McBeath, Darin W (ELS-STL)]

While not specifically providing a resolution to your questions
surrounding web services, you might find the following research paper
interesting.  It's a bit old, but still fairly relevant.

http://www.dbis.ethz.ch/research/publications/47.pdf

Darin.


-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com
[mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Ian Small
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:54 AM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] Exposing content via Web services

 
> Thanks for your comments and suggestions, especially on your day off!
> 
> > Form (3) is more work, and while the server itself does not 
> directly 
> > support it, it can probably be done
> 
> I am a little surprised that MLS doesn't support this 
> natively.  Is there any plans to build a WS-* interface into 
> MLS.  

I'm not the right person to comment on future product plans.
However, I think it's safe to say that the people who pay attention to
this
will be reading this thread and will take your suggestions into account.

> > One starting point might be the SOAP Router contributed by the 
> > community and found a ways down the page here:
> > http://developer.marklogic.com/code/
> 
> That was certainly interesting to look at and got me 
> thinking; however, I need much more than what is available 
> from that contribution.  Specifically, it would be nice to be able to:
> 
> * Create a bunch of XQuery functions in a module and indicate 
> that they all should be exposed as a SOAP Web service
> * Configure the binding and endpoint information in the MLS 
> administration UI
> * Allow service consumers to access the module in such a way 
> that MLS would automatically generate the WSDL (e.g., by 
> pulling up a URL like
> http://localhost/myGoodXQuery.xqy?wsdl)
> * Allow service consumers to send messages to this endpoint 
> and have MLS receive and dispatch them to the appropriate 
> XQuery function.

I understand your situation.  Historically, natively supporting SOAP
services has not been a priority across our customer base, which is
why it's not currently in the product.  I don't honestly know if
that's changing or not - your email is one piece of evidence that is may
be.

Cheers
ian

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