[ome-devel] Existing client side code in C

[Harry Hochheiser]

Joshua:

On Aug 16, 2004, at 6:03 AM, Joshua Moore wrote:
> Using xml-rpc is reasonable. My problem, however, is where do I point 
> my developer's and say, "There, code against that." The interface is 
> there for OMEIS 
> (http://docs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/api/omeis/interface.html) but it 
> seems to be missing for OMEDS. Once again, maybe it's just a RTFM 
> problem, but I can't find the FM.
>

No, there is no FM at the moment. Your point is completely valid.
>
> An aside: this is perhaps one area where SOAP benefits: the WSDL can 
> be generated automagically, so that there exists an interface and no 
> one has to keep it up-to-date. Tools exist to download the WSDL and 
> generate bindings.
>

Agreed. Unfortunately, I think it might be non-trivial to migrate from 
XMLRPC to SOAP.

harry