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Title: |
SOAP Scripts in Mozilla |
Subject: |
interoperability |
Author: |
Whitmer, Ray |
Format: |
html |
Location: |
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/xmlextras/docs/Soap_Scripts_in_Mozilla.html |
Abstract:
Microsoft and others have advocated SOAP as a way to encode and exchange public data structures between agents on the web, which is now becoming a web standard at W3C (see the multiple submissions and working documents related to SOAP in the list of W3C current drafts ). The browser client is the most universal web agent in existence, and Javascript is the standard, interoperable way of scripting browsers. Scriptable SOAP in browsers gives clients and servers more to say to each other through existing http-xml request services, providing scripts with persistence, database, and access to other web services not tied to the request and response cycles of the HTML-based user interface. Web data structures, exchanged in a platform-neutral way, should become as fundamental to web agents as web content is today. The key to this is a very natural binding to the data of Javascript so that the script can simply use the data instead of tediously encoding and extracting the data from the XML.Commentary:
This document outlines the use of SOAP in latest version Mozilla. This version of Mozilla supports the SOAP protocol and does some implementation of SOAP objects into Javascript on the fly.