1. Introduction
1.1 What is Action Web Service?
Action Web Service implements server side support for the SOAP and XML-RPC web service protocols.
It integrates with Action Pack so that you can declare and publish APIs (via WSDL) with the minimum amount of effort.
It does not implement all supported features of W3 specifications, only those required for interoperability with other platforms such as .NET.
Using Action Web Service, you could:
- Implement Blogger or metaWeblog API support in your Rails blogging application
- Implement your own custom API, and have .NET developers be able to generate a class to use the API from the Action Web Service generated WSDL
- Drop in support for accessing other people’s Action Web Service APIs into your controller with one line of code