gSOAP

The gSOAP toolkit was first introduced in 1999 as a research project at the Florida State University for generic XML communications by establishing a type-safe data binding between XML schema types and C/C++ data types through automatic programming. A domain-specific C compiler tool was developed to generate source code that efficiently converts native C data structures to XML and back. The toolkit was further developed to support the SOAP web services messaging protocol, introduced at around the same time, hence the name "gSOAP" (generic XML and SOAP). Further development took place under ownership of Genivia Incorporated, which included the addition of new WSDL and XML schema processing capabilities in 2003 as well as the addition of WS-* web services protocol capabilities, XML-RPC messaging, support for the JSON data format, and a stand-alone web server. The gSOAP toolkit is written in portable C/C++ and uses a form of bootstrapping by generating its own code to implement a converter to translate WSDL/XSD specifications to C/C++ source code for WSDL/XSD meta-data bindings. The gSOAP software is offered under the GPLv2 open source license and commercial-use source code licenses.

To establish an XML data binding with C/C++ data types, gSOAP uses three basic forms of source code annotation: directives, identifier naming conventions, and punctuation.

A fully annotated structure declaration in C for a hierarchical employee record may appear as

The gSOAP toolkit offers a comprehensive and transparent C/C++ XML data binding solution through autocoding techniques. This saves developers substantial time to implement XML Web services in C/C++. In addition, the use of XML data bindings significantly simplifies the use of XML in applications by automatically mapping XML to C/C++ data types. Application developers no longer need to adjust the application logic to specific libraries and XML-centric data representations such as DOM.

gSOAP一种跨平台的C和 C++软件开发工具包。生成C/C++的RPC代码，XML数据绑定，对SOAP Web服务和其他应用形成高效的具体架构解析器，它们都受益于一个XML接口。
这个工具包提供了一个全面和透明的XML数据绑定解决方案，Autocoding节省大量开发时间来执行SOAP/XML Web服务中的C/C++。此外，使用XML数据绑定大大简化了XML自动映射。应用开发人员不再需要调整应用程序逻辑的具体库和XML为中心的数据，如 交涉DOM。
我们可以使用gSOAP提供工具直接根据wsdl文档，生成所需要的数据类型，并将底层实现完全封装，我们只需要简单的操作代理类，就可以很轻松的实现调用。