Need help with SOAP integration

[Jason Long]

Hey gang,

I'm helping out on a project where we're trying to integrate our product with that of another company.  The other company is a Microsoft / SOAP shop and I'm having difficulties getting our Rails app to successfully talk to their test web service (which is new, so it's entirely possible that the issue is on their side).  I've tinkered with a few of the Ruby SOAP clients out there, but I think it's time to hire someone with some stronger chops for a few hours to see if they can help get this working.

Let me know if you think you can help and we'll figure out the time and money part.

Thanks,

  Jason

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Jason Long
Black Ant Media
http://blackantmedia.com
http://thestrake.com

[Chris Nelson]

Jason,

I've done some pretty in depth SOAP, though it's been a little while; at one point I was a contributor on the Apache SOAP project (java).  I'd be willing to try and help out if I can.  You can reach me at 513.470.5318.

--Chris

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[Chris Nelson]

Crap.  reply fail!  Sorry for the spam guys...

[fallenrogue]

Jason,

As a long time .NET developer I can say that if they are generating
their SOAP services via the Web Reference style then the resulting
generated services are going to be expecting values that soap4r does
not contain. If possible, ask them if they are establishing their
service with WCF (.NET 3.0+). If so, ask them to configure the REST
endpoints as well and those will play much better with what you'd
expect in Rails with minimal effort on their part.

This issue was common for all clients (around the .NET 2.0 timeframe)
that were not generated explicitly by Visual Studio.

Again, I don't know if that helps, hurts, or makes you just shrug but
I thought I mention it as a possible, low cost solution to the issue
that provides value to both parties involved. Thanks!

Leon Gersing
Software Artisan, EdgeCase LLC