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                          Web Services for Tcl

(see http://members.cox.net/~gerald.lester/WebServicesForTcl.html)

Summary
	The distribution provides both client side access to Web Services
	and server side creation of Web Services. Currently only
	document/literal and rpc/encoded with HTTP Soap transport are
	supported on the client side. The server side currently works only
	with TclHttpdand provides all services as document/literal over
	HTTP Soap transport. Documentation for the package, including
	examples can be found here. The distribution consist of three
         packages

	   1. WS::Client
	   2. WS::Server
	   3. WS::Utils

	The client is known to work with #C and Java based Web Services
	(your mileage may very).


Download
	A ZIP file for downloading is available at:
	    http://members.cox.net/~gerald.lester/WebServices.zip

License
	Standard BSD.


Packages Required
	The following packages are used:

	    * Tcl 8.5 or the dict (source, windows binary) extension
	      for Tcl 8.4
	    * tdom
	    * tls
	    * log from TclLib
	    * uri from TclLib
	    * http from Tcl itself

	Additionally, if you are running the TclHttpd on Windows, it
	is highly recommended that you use the iocpsock extension.


Score Card
	The package can currently parse about 87.51 percent of the
	WSDLs list on Xmethods.net.

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| Gerald W. Lester                                                       |
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