[Solar-talk] Question on Domain51_Service code

[Andreas Ravnestad]

Rodrigo Moraes wrote:
> On 11/6/06, Travis Swicegood wrote:
>   
>> This is just to take the temperature of the Solar users.  What do you
>> guys think about implementing web services so they're easily accessible
>> from Solar?
>>     
>
> I think it is a good thing.
>
>   
>> Do you guys think we need more of them, less of them, are you
>> completely indifferent to them?
>>     
>
> Personally I'm more interested in "infra-structural" framework classes
> right now, and I still don't use any web services, but I think I will.
>
>   
>> There's tons of APIs to write adapters, including some like Google Maps
>> that would need a view element (possibly a View_Helper) to make work,
>> but if no one's got a use for them, I'm sure I can find other things to
>> spend free time on :-)
>>     
>
> I don't know very much about, but aren't the web services classes from
> Zend Framework of good quality and couldn't them be easily ported o
> Solar?
>
>   
PEAR also has a bunch of  packages for web services [1] that should be 
easy to port. I don't know if there might be licensing issues lurking 
though. Just a thought :)

-Andreas

[1] http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=23&catname=Web+Services