C++ web service framework

Question

We are looking for a C++ Soap web services framework that support RPC, preferably open source. Any recommendations?

Answer 1

You can check out xmlbeansxx. This is a kind of lightweight, low level solution, compared to complete frameworks. This has advantages in some cases.

Invoking SOAP WebServices using xmlbeansxx Article

Code example is here: WsClient.cpp.

Answer 2

I think the way to go is to write your service in C++ (I am assuming you did all the homework and there is a good reason you want to write in C++) and then front it using an RPC server. Use something like Thrift or Protobufs for a fast RPC implementation.

Now write your web frontend in the language of your choice - python would be mine - and make RPC calls to do all your heavy lifting.

Answer 3

Try the ffead-cpp framework, it provides in-built web-service support, rest, json and many other useful features.

Answer 4

I concur with imjorge's answer and add that there's a C/C++ version of the Axis2 framework (a more flexible, extensible Axis) that does SOAP via RPC and all sorts of stuff including a bunch of the WS-* specs.

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/

Answer 5

We are using EasySoap (http://easysoap.sourceforge.net/)

Answer 6

You could try gSOAP. Available under GPL and commercial licences.