[cl-soap-devel] Announcing CL-SOAP

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

Last month I started a new open-source (LLGPL) project
on common-lisp.net called CL-SOAP, with as base URL:

http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-soap

CL-SOAP is a library that will ultimately implement
the full SOAP 1.1 spec, both the client and server sides,
using both HTTP and HTTPS as transports as well as
the WSDL 1.1 spec and the XML Schema Definition spec
on as many Common Lisp implementations as possible.
Interoperability with various other SOAP
implementations and applications will be possible.

Although no code has yet been released, the first
target has now been reached: CL-SOAP can act as
client to the Google AdWords API. This means the
basic SOAP framework including an HTTP/HTTPS client
works in document style, WSDL including XSD types
is parsed and used dynamically to make the actual calls.
To see this real-world code in action, goto

http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-soap/google-adwords-api.html

Furthermore, simple RPC style SOAP with or without WSDL
support also works (for automagic WSDL support,
parameter types must be simple though).

If you are interested, please check out the code, try
to make CL-SOAP work in your particular situation and
report back your experiences.

If you understand enough about the internals of SOAP,
WSDL and XSD, and have some free time, you are invited
to contribute actual code to CL-SOAP.

The following tasks are still open:
- test and (im)prove compatibility with other SOAP
   implementations and applications
- port to other Common Lisp implementations
- implement server side SOAP (document model)
- define WSDL in Lisp (and autogenerate it)
- implement more of WSDL and XSD.
- implement more of the SOAP RPC model and encoding,
   both for client and server

Sven Van Caekenberghe

http://homepage.mac.com/svc

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