The WebServer library contains a collection of classes to be used for creating client and server 'web service' applications.
The GWSService class is used to make RPCs as a client.
This class makes use of GWSCoder classes to serialize
the request before sending it to the remote system,
and to deserialize the response received.
Different GWSCoder sublasses handle different encoding mechanisms,
and this library provides one for XMLRPC (because it's a nice,
simple mechanism good for most normal applicatiions), and one for
SOAP (because, while it's a horrible, bloated, designed-by-comittee
mechanism, it's also the most common one by far and the standard
one for web services).
The GWSCoder base class provides support for decoding an
XML document to a tree of GWSElement objects, and encoding a
tree of GWSElement objects to form an XML document.
The GWSElement class represents an element in an XML document
and provides a concise set of methods for locating and
manipulating the elements within a tree representing the
entire document.
The remaining classes in the library provide support for WSDL,
allowing a WSDL document to be parsed, and SOAP calls to be
made to a service described in the WSDL, with binding
information from the WSDL used to build the calls from a minimal
set of parameters.
The index below lists the major components of the WebServices documentation.
Title Index