Web Services without Pain: gSOAP Writes Your XML, SOAP, and RPC - Related links

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Bruce Perens talks about a FLOSS tool that generates the wrappings around a web service defined in C/C++. The tool takes care of a lot of the uninteresting aspects of building a web service - the parts that are likely to be exotic to someone coming from a standard C/C++, non-web, development background.

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