web services.

[danjourno]

Can anyone reccomend programming languages for developing XML web services
in? I'm quite new to the concept, and am developing on a unix based system.
I'm considering PHP, Java or Python. Do any of these lend themselves better
towards this sort of thing in terms of ease of programming, stability, and
speed of execution?

Thanks
Dan

 

[Andy Dingley]

Can anyone reccomend programming languages for developing XML web services
in?

Java. It's what all the cool kids use.

No-one "writes" web services these days. Instead you install a
middleware product, that does it for you, and you write to the
middleware's API instead. It cuts out a lot (a _lot_) of tiresome rote
work. The good middlewares are for Java, so Java is what you write
in. Ones to look at are WebLogic, WebSphere and (open source) JBoss.

If you're devoted to Perl, then SOAP:Lite will be your friend. But
that's a definitley lower level than the other options. Not bad for
simple clients, but I wouldn't want to build huge architectures around
it.

There's also .Net - that means C# if you're doing anything serious and
most services, or VB.Net if you're building quick UI's.

 

[GIMME]

Java is the industry standard ... unless you work at some nerd company
like IBM that uses Python and APL. PHP is used by some small and
midsize companies.

If you really want to see how web services are used, get a project
going using Apache's AXIS package.