Re: Help with generating client, please

Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote my first SOA server client in Java a few years ago.  The SOA
> idea was to present an interface (API) in the code, then the axis tool
> generated a remote interface to that - just as it was at the server.
>
> String arguments were strings at the client, ints were ints, etc.
>
> Last week I created a server in .NET with a string input argument, and a
> string response, and pointed Netbeans at the URL to write a client.
> Same thing - the WSDL generated client takes string inputs and returns a
> string.  That's the idea - the SOA transport mechanism is transparent to
> the programmer.
>
> I am trying to write a C client now.  I used axis2c, and the arguments
> are "adb_ReturnString_t*" - what ever that is.  A quick google shows
> lots of xml.
>
> ??
>
> I know the '*' means a pointer, and suspect the '_t' signifies 'type',
> yeah, but... what happened to the idea that SOA provides a transparent
> remote mechanism, which is the idea in the first place?
>
> Did I use the wrong arguments to the generating call?  I can understand
> the parameters being 'char *', since C does not have strings, but what
> are these adb things, and how do I get a simple interface instead?
>
> Here is what I did:
> ./wsdl2java.sh -uri ../../../MSClient/Server.wsdl -l c -o test
Use the "-d none" option with the above command and you will get XML 
only API (we call it the OM API)

Samisa...
> Thanks for answers about this - I'd like to write this in C, as it
> should be put into a low-level OS library.
>
> Cheers,
> Bret
>
>
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