Did I really just see that?
Reading through a post about UDDI on James Governor's blog, I saw the following line:
I spoke yesterday to IBM about the IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway version 6.0. The new version includes a cool new function. HTTP over XML. Why? Customer demand.
I thought "he must surely mean 'XML over HTTP", as in "Plain Old XML over HTTP, without using SOAP".
But, could he really mean "HTTP over XML"?
Well, take a look at this:
page
www.ibm.com/host>
/index.html
element
www.ibm.com/host>
81
/ibmlogo.gif
Yes, that is what it appears to be. It's a HTTP request formatted in XML, taken from the WebSphere Studio Online Help
There is an explanation though. By defining HTTP GETs and POSTs (and PUTs, HEADs, etc) as XML, you can import them into WebSphere's Component Test program. This allows you to define a testcase in XML, using your XML-editing tool of choice, before importing it and executing it. It doesn't actually perform "HTTP over XML", rather it's "HTTP described as XML" (correct me if I'm missing some other new feature).
You can use Ethereal to save HTTP sessions as XML too, but it uses different XML tags from those that Component Test uses.
3:59:15 PM 
|
