Web Services for Devices

WS4D-gSOAP is a toolkit for developing Web services consumer and provider being conform to the “Devices Profile for Web Services” (DPWS) in C/C++. The toolkit is implemented as an extension to the well known gSOAP Web services toolkit. Developers can concentrate on the implementation of a device’s functionality as WS4D-gSOAP supports code generation on service and device level.

WS4D-gSOAP offers multi-platform support such as Linux i386, Windows-native, Windows-cygwin and embedded Linux. The toolkit supports development within a typical GNU software development toolchain or an integrated development environment such as Visual Studio 2005 or Eclipse.

The WS4D-gSOAP toolkit is hosted at http://trac.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/projects/ws4d-gsoap.

Feature Highlights

• supports the latest version of gSOAP and its features
• supports multiple platforms, embedded platforms and cross compiler
• can be used to implement web service endpoints conforming to DPWS February 2006
  • dpws device: web service provider
  • dpws client: web service consumer
  • dpws peer: dpws device and client at the same time
• code generation
  • service and device description
  • device setup
• hosting of web services developed with other tool kits
• life cycle management of hosted services
• basic ws-security support: message signing

See supported features for a more detailed description.