What is the best SOAP service to use?

[milkyway]

Hello,

I'm a newbie who hopes they have come to the correct place.

Basically, I want to develop a web service for consumption by .NET
program (hopefully C#). The performance of the service would have to be
able to be very fast in response and be somewhat reliable (i.e. not
abending every 2 or 3 minutes).

I was going to try to develop the service in C (using gSOAP) but am now
leaning to JAVA (because a good amount of the code I have is already
written in this language). Is there a *significant* difference between
using a service written in C and one written in JAVA? Are there any
pitfalls that one has to look out for when using either JAVA or C?
Should I just keep the JAVA code or should I make an effort to convert
it C?

Any help, hints or advice would be *greatly* appreciated ;-)

[Mark McIntyre]

On 24 Aug 2005 15:42:37 -0700, in comp.lang.c , "milkyway"
<d0******@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm a newbie who hopes they have come to the correct place.

COMP.LANG.C is definitely the wrong place - C#, Java, and SOAP are
all waaaaay off topic. The C element might be topical, but CLC
discusses ISO standard C, and I suspect that SOAP will require
nonstandard extensions, networking etc.

A top tip: don't post to groups where you've not lurked or at least
read a day's messages, it can lead to flames when you post offtopic or
inappropriately.
--
Mark McIntyre
CLC FAQ <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>
CLC readme: <http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt>

[CBFalconer]

milkyway wrote:

I'm a newbie who hopes they have come to the correct place.

Basically, I want to develop a web service for consumption by .NET
program (hopefully C#). The performance of the service would have
to be able to be very fast in response and be somewhat reliable
(i.e. not abending every 2 or 3 minutes).

I was going to try to develop the service in C (using gSOAP) but
am now leaning to JAVA (because a good amount of the code I have
is already written in this language). Is there a *significant*
difference between using a service written in C and one written
in JAVA? Are there any pitfalls that one has to look out for when
using either JAVA or C? Should I just keep the JAVA code or should
I make an effort to convert it C?

Any help, hints or advice would be *greatly* appreciated ;-)

Once you mention C# and .NET the only possible newsgroup that could
be usefule is the microsoft one. You are off topic everywhere
else. By simply reading those newsgroups for a short time you
should have realized this and not have generated the monstrous
off-topic cross-post.

f'ups set.

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[Jack Klein]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:03:28 GMT, Mark McIntyre
<ma**********@spamcop.net> wrote in comp.lang.c:

On 24 Aug 2005 15:42:37 -0700, in comp.lang.c , "milkyway"
<d0******@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm a newbie who hopes they have come to the correct place.

COMP.LANG.C is definitely the wrong place - C#, Java, and SOAP are
all waaaaay off topic. The C element might be topical, but CLC
discusses ISO standard C, and I suspect that SOAP will require
nonstandard extensions, networking etc.

I disagree. Especially in the early days, before software became Big
Business (tm), I worked with programmers who did allow themselves to
experience SOAP often enough. The result was pungent and unpleasant.

So to the OP, I'd suggest Dial.

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[CBFalconer]

Mark McIntyre wrote:

"milkyway" <d0******@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'm a newbie who hopes they have come to the correct place.

COMP.LANG.C is definitely the wrong place - C#, Java, and SOAP
are all waaaaay off topic. The C element might be topical, but
CLC discusses ISO standard C, and I suspect that SOAP will
require nonstandard extensions, networking etc.

A top tip: don't post to groups where you've not lurked or at
least read a day's messages, it can lead to flames when you
post offtopic or inappropriately.

Mark, why didn't you set followups? None of us need to hear
replies to this.

f'ups set.

--
"If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson

[milkyway]

The service itself is to be used with Linux / Apache. I was trying to
determine if it would be better to write it in C or in JAVA and if all
services are created equal or if there are some services (written in
certain languages) that would be better than others (from the
perspective of performance and stability).

Because of my UNIX background, this is why I am choosing Liunux /
Apache as a type of server (using Oracle as a database). It seems that
Microsoft products are best used for front end as they seem to look
better.

I have done some googling and found some threads that say that .NET
calling some services (not saying what language the service is written
in) on UNIX platforms cause problems - but, when using gSOAP all was
OK.

As mentioned before, I have some code that can be converted to JAVA a
bit quicker than "C" (although I prefer "C"). I was wondering if there
is any muck or mire out that one can run into when writing services
using JAVA (being called from .NET) - or - would it be better to just
take the time and develop it in "C"

Again, any help, hints or advice is appreciated.