Article:		Making Web Services Work at Amazon
Subject:		SOAP Bloat and poor uptime
Date:		2004-02-03 06:06:48
From:		Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Response to: SOAP Bloat and poor uptime
Hi guys, our company has just started the merchant integration process with Amazon, we are a microsoft shop using .net framework. It was brought to our attention the Amazon won't support the use of this platform to work with their web services. Do you know of any SOAP product that runs on a MIcrosoft 2000 server that we can use to interact with them? We are pretty new in the .net enviroment/SOAP functionality. Thanks

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• SOAP Bloat and poor uptime
  2004-02-11 21:43:04 David Reynolds [Reply]
  
  >>Do you know of any SOAP product that runs on a MIcrosoft 2000 server that we can use to interact with them?

  
  WASH from wrinklebrain.com (as Rich Z mentioned above) looks like it might be right for you, providing you can handle the XML generation. I had thought that might be the hard part, but then after looking closer I suspect the real challenge is in tracking submissions and responses, and not dropping _any_ of them... wrinklebrain has both win32 and a linux solution, but if you call them, it sounds like the future of the linux offering isn't that good.

  
  Myself, I'm going to doggedly try to roll my own, but it looks like this will be an unpleasant two months. BTW, I understand that the initial provided soap wrapper perl mod was quite buggy, and I'm underwhelmed that the current one is still dated from the begining of the service rollout (July 2002).
  
  

• SOAP Bloat and poor uptime
  2004-02-06 08:09:51 Matt Eggertson [Reply]
  
  Hey, I am in the same boat as Juan Carlos Gonzalez, my company has just started the merchant integration process as well in the .net framework with little luck. I admit I have very limited experience with soap and web services and have spent the last week beating my head against the wall trying to make heads or tails of half the information on the Amazon integration website.

  
  Any help or guidance would be great

  
  -Thanks