zez.org: Providing Web Services using WDDX

Feb 28, 2001, 00:14 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Luis Argerich)

[ Thanks to Paul K Egell-Johnsen for this link. ]

"As we've seen in lot of articles and publications, the web of services, is one of the emerging evolutions of the actual document-based web. To make the web a valid media for providing services it would be needed to increase the inter-operability between existing web applications and design new ones with this in mind."

"WDDX is a standard developed to interchange data structures between different programming languages using XML as the payload...."

"PHP has a native extension for WDDX, we should have PHP compiled to use this extension by adding --enable-wddx to the configuration script."

"WDDX has two basic operations: serializing data from PHP data types to WDDX and de-serializing data from WDDX to P{HP data types, we are going to cover both."

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