FORTRAN access to .NET web services

martin hill mchill at dial.pipex.com
Mon Oct 20 15:06:46 PDT 2003


Oh. Ah.  etc.  I thought we'd agreed that any service would *as a minimum* offer
document-based interfaces, but I thought this was in the http/get/post interface
body....

Who (if anyone) was taking the minutes? 

Quoting Alasdair Allan <aa at astro.ex.ac.uk>:

> 
> > We had a discussion about providing document-based web services vs RPC web
> 
> > services on the AstroGrid project, at
> > 
> > http://forum.astrogrid.org/read.php?action=lastpost&TID=452
> > 
> > We originally provided document-based web-service datacenters and they 
> > worked.  We are now going to transfer over to RPC ones and either I shall 
> > say "I told you so" or say nothing at all and pretend I approved.
> 
> I thought that most people had agreed that sending a document, but over 
> RPC, was probably the best way to go? 
> 
> In other words, we're not taking abotu document literal services, but an
> XML document sent as a "string" via an RPC service... or have I totally
> misunderstood?
>  
> Al.
> -- 
> Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter
> 
> 


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