From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-04-13T05:46:01+09:00
Subject: RE: [ANN] Ruby/Google

WSDL is the Web Services Description Language and is a W3C spec for
describing the API for a SOAP accessible Web service in XML.  It's along
the lines of CORBA IDL.

-rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Tomson [mailto:ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 4:38 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Google
> 
> In article <200204121527.g3CFREm44481@green.bikeshed.org>,
> Brian F. Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> As part of my continuing efforts to master Ruby, I've released
version
> >> 0.1.0 of Ruby/Google.
> >>
> >> This library offers a higher-level abstraction of Google's new
> >> SOAP-driven Web API. The aim of the library is to make the details
of
> >> the raw data structures returned by the Web API irrelevant, in the
> >> process making the API more accessible for everyday use.
> >>
> >> The code is of alpha quality, but seems to do as it's told, in
spite
> >> of my newness to the language. :-)
> >>
> >> Demonstration programs are included in the archive.
> >>
> >> I encourage people to try it out and let me know what they think.
> >
> >Neat, I was hoping someone would do this for until we have WSDL
support
> :-)
> >It seems to work pretty well (except for alternately a search
succeeding
> and
> >getting a weird SOAP error..., but I think that's SOAP4R's fault and
will
> >try to figure out more later).
> 
> 
> OK, I'll display my ignorance of many web related things: What is WSDL
and
> what does it do for us?
> 
> Phil