Staff Web Service Framework

Question

How does Staff web service framework compare to others for c++?

Answer 1

Hi,

I cannot answer your question in all details, but I'm searching for C++ SOA / web service frameworks for a year now.

My favorites (all OpenSource and platform independent - not ordered) are currently:

GSOAP - http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html

pros:

• proven, reliable, very fast
• big documentation, many support
• still maintained - releases every 3-6 months

contras:

• WSDL/client generators are not free
• programming and embedding into existing apps isn't so easy
• seems to be more C than C++

Apache AXIS/C++ - http://ws.apache.org/axis/cpp/index.html

pros:

• proven, already in use in big projects
• (nearly) good documentation
• up to date, maintenance is ensured by Apache Foundation
• better/nicer C++ API

contras:

• heavy weight SDK / too many functionality for me
• not easy to implement it / many work to embed it into own app
• maybe not as fast and bigger footprint as GSOAP

Staff - http://code.google.com/p/staff/

pros:

• very small footprint
• easy and fast to integrate

contras:

• future maintenance is not clear / it's (only) a Google summer of code project
• very early stage
• support party only in cyrillic

If I have to decide for a framework right now, I would take Apache AXIS - it's proven and reliable and thus ready for productive use. Further it's future maintenance is guaranteed by the Apache Foundation and I'm free to uase, modify and integrate AXIS as I want - even for my commercial applications.

I hope that helped a little bit :-)

Greetz from Germany, Chris