[Info-vax] Query of interest in Open Source on OpenVMS

[Richard Maher]

"RobertsonEricW" <robertsonericw at netzero.net> wrote in message 
news:a01f5ab5-b263-4f60-936b-b98fa3de07c3 at ur9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 27, 10:35 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> BillPedersen wrote 2012-03-27 15:39:
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> > I have been approached by someone in the OpenVMS Community who is 
> > looking at whether there is interest in seeing some specific Open Source 
> > Tools ported to OpenVMS. The specific tools they have mentioned are:
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> > * GTK+ 2.x or 3.x
> > * AXIS/C libraries
> > * ICU 4.x
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> > Is there an interest in seeing these tools available?
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> A quick check seems to imply that Axis/C does more or less (probably
> with slightly differect APIs) the same job as the current gSOAP
> port for OpenVMS. I'm currently using gSOAP in production use
> (over 2 years now). Maybe if one have something that currently
> uses Axis/C on another platform that you'd like to move right
> over to OpenVMS as-is...
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> > I am aware of some earlier work on a couple of these items but do not 
> > know the current status so if someone has information there that would 
> > be useful as well.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Bill.
>
> > Bill Pedersen
> > CCSS - Computer Consulting System Services, LLC
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Bill & Jan-Erik,

gSOAP can only be used to interface with SOAP based interfaces.
However, not all web based interfaces are SOAP based. There are a
number of REST based web services which would need AXIS to interface
with. gSOAP cannot communicate with REST based web services. But AXIS
can.

Eric
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Don't worry Eric. HP/VMS still has teams of people on the payroll scattered 
across the globe with nothing to do and all day to do it in. Getting gSOAP 
to talk to RESTful services will be a walk in the park for the Fagin Massiv 
:-(

As far as my thoughts on the supposedly HP officially supported AXIS2/C 
goes, comp.os.vms archives are available.

Regards Richard Maher