README
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2The Zolera SOAP Infrastructure
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5ZSI, the Zolera SOAP Infrastructure, is a pure-Python module that
6provides an implementation of SOAP messaging, as described in SOAP 1.1
7Specification (see http://www.w3.org/TR/soap). It can also be used to
8build applications using SOAP Messages with Attachments (see
9http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments). ZSI is intended to make it
10easier to write web services in Python.
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12In particular, ZSI parses and generates SOAP messages, and converts
13between native Python datatypes and SOAP syntax. Simple dispatch and
14invocation methods are supported. There are no known bugs. It's only
15known limitation is that it cannot handle multi-dimensional arrays.
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17ZSI is built on top of DOM. It requires Python 2.3 or later.
18It is open source. We hope you find it useful.
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20The ZSI.twisted package will only be built if you're using Python >= 2.4,
21and in order to use it you'll need twisted >= 2.0 and twistedWeb >= 0.5.0
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24The documentation (in PDF and HTML) is accurate. We should probably
25restructure the document as a HOWTO. You probably can't usefully edit
26the docs without having the Python2.0 sources and some other utilities
27(TeX, pdfLaTeX, latex2html) on a Unix or Cygwin installation. If you
28want to format or revise the docs, see "Documentation Tools" in the
29file RELEASE.
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31 /rich $alz
32 rsalz@datapower.com
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34Things To Do
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37Any volunteers?
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39- Use isinstance() for types.
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41- Update to SOAPv1.2.
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