Article:		Making Web Services Work at Amazon
Subject:		SOAP Bloat and poor uptime
Date:		2004-02-11 21:43:04
From:		David Reynolds
Response to: SOAP Bloat and poor uptime
>>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).

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• SOAP Bloat and poor uptime
  2004-03-13 10:22:04 Sean Doyle [Reply]
  
  Building a highly reliable and trustworthy SOAP framework for Amazon is somewhat tricky, and you are correct, tracking the entire process workflow is crucial to success.

  
  The decision to build or buy should factor in, features, time to market, complexity, testing/certification and maintenance going forward. The Amazon platform is evolving, albeit at a measured pace, so if you do choose to build over buy you will need to update it occasionaly to comply with new features and SLAs. Make sure that you factor this in before making your decision.

  
  <saleson>For more information on our WASH product and a demo, feel free to give us a call at WrinkleBrain. </saleson>