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Client-Side SOAP
1. Overview
Client-Side SOAP is a multi-part tutorial with the aim of introducing you to some of the technologies available for writing clients that consume web services using SOAP.
For the service consumer there are many SOAP packages available covering
many platforms and languages but we will not explain all of them here on this
site. We will explore some of those that we at Soapuser.com see as being useful.
The logic behind our choices comes down to an attempt to cover as many application types
as possible within the arena of what makes sense as a distributed application.
We have also limited ourselves to Win32 and Unix platforms. Here is our list of
application types and platform/language choice and a SOAP package that
we believe will plug in well for you in each case:
| App Type | Platform | Language | SOAP Package |
| Stand-Alone Client Applications | Win32 & Unix | Java | Apache SOAP for Java |
| C++ | Systinet WASP for C++ | ||
| Win32 | Visual Basic & Excel Macros |
Microsoft SOAP Toolkit | |
| JSPs, Servlets or Applet-based Web Pages | Win32 & Unix | Java | Apache SOAP for Java |
| Perl/CGI Web Pages | Win32 & Unix | Perl | SOAP::Lite for Perl |
| ASP Web Pages | Win32 | ASP Script | Microsoft SOAP Toolkit |
| Daemons | Win32 & Unix | C++ | Systinet WASP for C++ |
| Win32 & Unix | Perl | SOAP::Lite for Perl |
We will go through each of the packages in the table in turn, showing how to use them to write SOAP clients that exploit the Quotation Service as developed in the Section 4 of Server-Side SOAP. Note that this is the same service that is implemented and available online in the Demo Section so even if you have not implemented the Quotation Service on your own servers you will be able to test the SOAP clients built in this tutorial against our servers.
Disclaimer: Before continuing, please understand that while working through this tutorial you will be instructed to download and install software on your machine. Not only has almost all of this software been developed by third parties but the peculiarities of your machine are entirely unknown to us. As such there is no way for us at Soapuser.com to foresee all of the effects that the installation of this software might have on your system. While we have made every effort to test this tutorial and avoid instructing you to download anything that might be in any way hazardous, nonetheless, we will not be held responsable for any damage. You can check the software and operating system versions we have used in our tests on the Version Details page.
[ Nicholas Quaine ]
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