Cool, I'll append some more information to the remote widgets design doc when
I've got the time.

> Also, publishing
>
> > a Plasma::Service using a different technology (like as a SOAP service)
> > would
> > be tricky since the access/control and message singing would make this
> > SOAP service quite complicated to use
>
> Well, a lot of SOAP services in the industry there have very complicated
> specifications on how to access them. I don't think anybody would kick us
> for some security parameters that need to be added to messages. :-)

Ok, it'll require me to change the implementation to no longer stream
Credentials to a bytearray, but append the different fields as child nodes in
the message to be somewhat usable, but that's a relatively minor change. And I
suppose we could always write some libs for php/ruby/whatnot to make accessing
these plasma soap services easier.

>
> For the future tools, we would just need a WSDL2Jolie converter, since we
> already have Jolie2Plasma (which converts a Jolie interface to a kconfigxml
> service descriptor).

That would be lovely... such a converter could make a lot of common cases
extremely easy to use. Think of something like:

Plasma::Service *service =
 AccessManager::self()-
>accessService("http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2/AmazonWebServices.wsdl");

and then just being able to use service just like any Plasma::Service.

> What I'd like to get working first is to, at least, be able to implement
> local (yes, local) services in Jolie. By doing so I would already gain a
>  lot of power, for example a plasmoid could load this Jolie service using
>  loadEmbeddedJolieService in MetaService and I could use this Jolie service
>  to orchestrate whatever distributed application in a network, hiding the
>  complexity from Plasma.
> Orchestrating a distributed application could be something complicated
> (multiparty p2p session) or simply accessing your GoogleMail. ;)

Cool stuff :p

Thanks for your feedback. You've given me some useful stuff to make the
implementation more flexible. I'll be improving the implementation, and will
keep you informed of the progress.