Re: Local SOAP Invocation??

I have something to say regarding "inter-language" communication
mechanism. Let us go over some basic concepts:

1. Computer languages give us ways to manipulate underlying
   "run time" based on language semantics

2. Communication is needed between "run time"

So a "inter-language" communication facility has to first
standradize on "run-time interactions" and then provide
language bindings in various computer languages. CORBA did
exactly that with "run time interaction" model in IDL (and
some runtime entities) and providing language bindings from
IDL. Similarly Java Native Interface has clear semantics and
syntax for Java to C/C++ communications.

So could you please elaborate more on what exactly you are
trying to achieve? SOPA/XML is, I beleive, only a small part
of this big picture.

Soumen Sarkar.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Roszko [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SOAP] Local SOAP Invocation??


I am attempting to come up with a local, XML based invocation method so
that software components written in different languages can communicate
(e.g a java component calling a C++ component).  As far as I understand,
SOAP has been designed and implemented to use an HTTP binding; I could
therefore presumably bind my components to different ports and essentially
loopback to my own machine.  However, this is clealy not an optimal
solution.  An alternative could be to bind SOAP to the interprocess
communication mechanism of the underlying operating system.  Has anyone
heard of anything along these lines?  Is it feasible?

My overall goal is to develop a generic inter-language communication
mechanism.  Can I perhaps have some thoughts if this is a good way to go??

Thanks a million!!

Andrew

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