How to provide a REST interface to a SOAP web service?

Question

I know very little about web programming but I need to establish a license generation web service to provide licenses to users of my desktop software.

I have managed to create a working & debugged SOAP service on a Win2003 server but now I have discovered that the interface that I need to provide to my payment processor must be REST.

How would you recommend I deal with this, given that I simply don't have the time to learn PHP and rewrite my web service etc. I could bypass the SOAP altogether and easily create an executable which receives the license parameters and returns an encrypted license, but it's the web interface bit that I am stuck on. I will probably subcontract someone to write a utility for this on elance, but I don't know what to ask for.

Manu thanks, Michael

Answer 1

You can expose the same service as SOAP based as well as RESTful. Axis2 with WSDL 2.0 has support for this.

Please see this article RESTful Web Services with Apache Axis2 - explains things in detail..

Thanks..

Answer 2

There's no easy conversion from SOAP to REST. SOAP WebServices RESTful APIs use different approaches. I think it is very easy to do with Ruby on Rails (which will take care of 90% of RESTful APi for you). All you need is to implement your logic.

Sinatra example:

get '/hi' do
  "Hello World!"
end