[RESEARCH] ActionService: WSDL/SOAP and XML-RPC server-side support for Action Pack

Oh, and no RDoc documentation until the public release. Sorry :)

the latest release in trunk (and 0.2.100 Gem) now include preliminary support for XML-RPC.

all the various XML-RPC introspection methods are not supported yet, but 'system.listMethods' is.

trunk now includes support for using ActiveRecord model classes in return signatures.

this means generated WSDL for an ActiveRecord model will declare a datatype containing as members the columns, and having the correct types. this removes the requirement to create 'wrapper structs' if you want to return model objects, you can just return them.

trunk now includes an additional new (also the default) dispatching model: "Direct". This means that the controller itself is the service, and methods on the controller can be exported.

Example (also showing named parameter declaration):

class BloggerController < ActionController::Base
  def someMethod
  end

  export :someMethod, :expects => [{:blogid=>String}, {:username=>String}, {:password=>String}]
end

the 0.2.102 gem also contains these features.

integrated into main repository.