Drupal Integration with SOAP

 Drupal and SOA

Can Drupal be part of an SOA?

What can you get out of the box?

Differences between Drupal 5 and Drupal 6

RSS Feeds, XML RPC and SOAP

 Exposing Drupal building blocks

File service
Menu service
Node service
System service
Taxonomy service
User service
Views service

Creating Own Services

Using service module and service hook

Using php_soap (PHP5) libary

Using NuSOAP

Incompatibility Issues

Complex types incompatibilities in .NET, Microsoft Office Web Services Toolkit

Apache Axix and Drupal

NuSOAP and php_soap library

Authentication, Authorization and Security

Using keys and session

User authentication

Controlling permission

Web Service Consumption and Portals

How to consume a web service in Drupal

Using Drupal as a portal