Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21153
Q-PCD WebServices-1: SOAP-Bridge
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:17:31 UTC
Product Requirement It should be easily possible to programmatically consume web services from OOos scripting languages. OOo itself should provide basic APIs that allow to retrieve a WSDL file and call a web service. Customer Need/Problem Today users import data from HTML pages into documents, e.g. statistical data into a spreadsheet. In the future more and more data will be available as web services. Thus, its likely that office users will want to access this data from OOo. Examples of useful web services could be dictionaries, phone books, thesaurus, clip art libraries, etc. Comment For all webservices areas, need more research on webservices projects within competing applications functionality, this may increase the priority of this area. This is a developers feature, basically create a nother class of API for webservices. Product Concept Basically I see four ways to realize WebServices access: - use the Java SOAP support - implement a UNO-SOAP-Bridge - use the existing SOAP-Invocation binding - implement a SOAP-Scripting binding The UNO-SOAP-Bridge is the most general approach. Theoretically a WebService can than be used at any place a UNO component is used.
added keyword Q-PCD
KR: Retargeted to OOo Later.
KR->Erwin: Please take care of this. You may want to reraise this for the next major.
I can confirm this would help tremendously in the enterprise space (here at least). With SOAP you can plug into a corporate EAI like the rest of the information system without needing a specific web server gateway.