I've been dealing with SOAP/WSDL a lot lately, and this is beside trying to play a role of ActionWebService maintainer. There are several points to mention. First off, everyone wants to use SOAP no matter whether it makes sense or not. Not a single company I've worked with had a slightest idea of what SOAP/WSDL is. OK, I take it back. What a f*ing mess it is...
Anyway, I was quit pleasantly surprised today after reading this article at InfoQ. It means there are still some sane people left in WS-* crowd. Pete Lacey's The S stands for Simple only proves my point.
Also I'd like to thank NAKAMURA Hiroshi, the author of soap4r library. It is a tough job to live in the mess like this, and his library is the best one I know in the dynamic language landscape that provides a decent SOAP/WSDL implementation. He also praises ruby-debug as a quite useful tool for debugging soap4r applications! Very much appreciated.
I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry after reading that IBM article… amazing.
The community really appreciates your help on maintaining AWS.
Zack