Comparing WSDL & SOAP libraries...

[Ralf Schmitt]

Brian Beck <exogen at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi again folks!
>
> I tried searching the newsgroup for this and nobody seemed to be
> asking the questions I wanted.
>
> I'm trying to take advantage of the Google API using Python, and it
> comes with a WSDL file in order to do so.  Of course, I immediately
> figured someone must have already written a WSDL parser in Python.
>

For your purposes there is a complete python package:
http://pygoogle.sourceforge.net/

> It appears that I have a few options...
>
> SOAPy - http://soapy.sourceforge.net/
> wsdl4py - http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/wsdl4py/
> ZSI - http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/python-zsi
>
> It also looked like there was a tutorial using a 'WebService' module,
> but I couldn't immediately find a home page for this -- it may have
> been the project that SOAPy is a part of.
>
> I'd simply like to know if someone has already done all the research
> in this area and has come to a conclusion regarding which one of these
> is the 'best'?  Easiest to set up and use, fastest, frequently
> updated, etc...
>

I once tried to use ZSI to implement a soap server. It's neither easy
to set up and use, nor fast. In the end I wrote my own package to
implement a soap server.

- Ralf
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