Wednesday, January 2. 2008
SOAP based Web Services in Ruby
This interesting announcement came across the rails mailing list this morning.
What does this really mean?
If this project actually does what it claims (I haven't tried it yet) then it means that Ruby is now a first class citizen in the SOAP based web service world (REST based web services have always worked well with ruby). In the past, if you wanted to work with SOAP based web services and needed WS-Security to provide authentication or encryption, your choices of platforms were either Java™ or Microsoft's .NET. Yes, ruby offered some level of basic SOAP support but higher level protocols like WS-Security just weren't available.
This announcement would imply that those days are past. That if you need to interoperate with a SOAP based web service stack, you can now add ruby as a possible platform. This is extremely good news.
I did some work last year that would have been in ruby had these services been available then.
WSO2 WSF/Ruby team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2 WSF/Ruby 1.0.0.
WSF/Ruby is the Ruby language extension to WSO2 WSF/C. This version enables you to consume/provide Web Services both with REST and with the power of WS-* stack including WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing and MTOM Attachments.
For more information, please visit our project home page, http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/ruby
What does this really mean?
If this project actually does what it claims (I haven't tried it yet) then it means that Ruby is now a first class citizen in the SOAP based web service world (REST based web services have always worked well with ruby). In the past, if you wanted to work with SOAP based web services and needed WS-Security to provide authentication or encryption, your choices of platforms were either Java™ or Microsoft's .NET. Yes, ruby offered some level of basic SOAP support but higher level protocols like WS-Security just weren't available.
This announcement would imply that those days are past. That if you need to interoperate with a SOAP based web service stack, you can now add ruby as a possible platform. This is extremely good news.
I did some work last year that would have been in ruby had these services been available then.
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