Re: Web Services War Stories

From: Scott Klement
$wsdl = 'http://geocoder.us/dist/eg/clients/GeoCoderPHP.wsdl';
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl);
$result = $client->geocode($address);

You've got to give someone credit for the amount of code that must have gone into PHP SoapClient to simplify the interface as they did. I wonder how well it works with complex WSDL files like:

http://footballpool.dataaccess.eu/data/info.wso?wsdl


For those who are consuming web services, have you run into WSDL files that expose dozens of functions (operations)? If so, does the tooling hold up? I gather that a PHP SoapClient parses the WSDL file each time it uses it. Contrast that with say an ILE interface where at least part of the binding to service program procedures occurs at compile time rather than runtime.

-Nathan