Matevž Gačnik's Weblog

I'm a little bit scared of this.

Not because of SuSE aquisition. It worries me because of Mono aquisition.

The day has finally come.

Mono 1.0 has been released. Site structure and design have also been updated.

Get it here.

Mono guys are dogfooding their own product. The Mono homepage is running on top of Mono ASP .NET implementation.

Bad news is: their site is down.

Latest daily build of Mono already allows web service proxy creation, compilation and execution. I had to manually compile the wsdl.exe equivalent (called MonoWSDL.exe) and then do:

• mono MonoWSDL.exe http://www.gama-system.com/webservices/stockquotes.asmx?wsdl (outputs StockQuotes.cs proxy)
• mcs /r:/usr/local/lib/System.Web.Services.dll /t:library StockQuotes.cs
• write a simple console web service client app (StockQuotesClient.cs)
• compile it using mcs /r:StockQuotes.dll StockQuotesClient.cs
• run it with mono StockQuotesClient.exe NASDAQ MSFT

What did I get?

This:

That's sweet. But Mono can now also do it the other way around. I can generate proxies on our platform using the standard wsdl.exe tool. Mono web services test page looks like this:

When one adds the "?wsdl" suffix to a web service endpoint WSDL is returned as expected.

I like it.

[Note: http://www.gama-system.com/webservices/stockquotes.asmx is our free stock ticker web service]