From: Markus Jais <mjais@...>
Date: 2002-04-10T20:33:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] SOAP4R/1.4.3

hi

thanks for your great work on SOAP4R.
I just started playing with SOAP and I think it is
really important for Ruby to have a good SOAP implementation

again, thanks a lot!

markus


NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I posted SOAP4R/1.4.3 at RAA.
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=SOAP4R
> 
> 'SOAP4R' is an implementation of
> SOAP 1.1 (W3C Note) [URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/].
> 
>>From the release note of SOAP4R/1.4.3.
> 
> * Attention to 1.4.2 or earlier users;
>   * Stopped redistributing packages in RAA from this release.
>     Please get required packages from RAA and install it.
>   * It still does NOT support WSDL!
> 
> * New features
>   * Added REXML parser support.
>   * Added uninstaller.
>   * Re: samples
>     * Added 3 new samples, Calc, Exchange, and SampleStruct.
>     * Use environment variable HTTP_PROXY or http_proxy for
>       http proxy.
>     * Removed unreachable services.
>     * RAA: Separate iRAA.rb into RAA.rb and iRAA.rb.
>     * Added description about samples to RELEASE_en.html.
>   * Changed String encoding handling among
>     Ruby object <-> SOAP Data Model <-> XML instance.
>     * Ruby object: $KCODE.
>     * SOAP Data Model: utf-8 if uconv module is installed,
>       $KCODE if not.
>     * XML instance: Client side use utf-8 if uconv module is
>       installed, $KCODE if not. Server side try to adjust the
>       request encoding.
>     * Use regexp instead of NKF.guess to check if the given
>       String is EUC/SJIS or not.
>   * Added 'addServant' interface to server side. See
>     sample/Calc/server.rb.
>   * Added 'addMethodAs' interface to both server side and
>     client side. See sample/Calc/server2.rb.
> 
> * Changes
>   * Removed Japanese document. I was tired of maintaining 2
>     separated documents. Though my English is poor as you see,
>     numbers of readers of my English document should be more
>     than one of my Japanese document. Would you please tell
>     me bug of my English composition and of course in the code?
>   * Use [RAA:Devel::Logger] instead of [RAA:Application].
>   * Avoided using exception in soap2obj and reduced warnings
>     in runtime.
>   * XSDDateTime: Use date2 version 3 instead of date3.rb.
>     Date2 version 3 will be included in standard distribution
>     of Ruby/1.8.
>   * XSDDateTime: Added XSDDateTimeToTime module to extract a
>     Time object from XSDDateTime, XSDDate and XSDTime.
> * Bug fixes
>   * Set 'charset=' to content-type when sending back a
>     SOAPFault. It was not set.
>   * XSDDateTime: Parsedate was not used. Removed.
>   * Added constant Log as a canonical name of Devel::Logger for
>     backward compatibility of devel-logger.
>   * Foo = Struct.new(:foo) and Foo = Struct.new("Foo", :foo)
>     could not be unmarshalled collectly. All members were
>     unmarshalled as nil. Fixed.
>   * Rescue ArgumentError(Unrecognized signal) in
>     standaloneServer.rb for mswin32 ruby.
> 
> Regards,
> // NaHi