thx for the quick response. This appears to be a pretty good overview: http://www.devchannel.org/webserviceschannel/04/02/11/1432220.shtml but as one reply notes, what about xml-rpc? Does PEAR distinguish the difference between document web services and application web services? Mark -----Original Message----- From: Lukas Smith [mailto:smith@backendmedia.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:01 AM To: Galbreath, Mark A Cc: 'soap@lists.php.net' Subject: Re: The future of PEAR SOAP? Galbreath, Mark A wrote: > Hmmmm....I am a php newbie, but am making quick progress on my first > application (php is so cool). On the advice of a friend, I just started > looking into PEAR, particularly for Web services. Is this not the best use > of my time, considering the message below? no php5 is still a bit off before being ready and more importantly before the world has made the switch. It is very likely that in a year from now php4 will be still more available than php5. The new extension is php5 only and quite fresh as well. regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Pariser Str. 44 D-10707 Berlin Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07 -- PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php