Rails - Nov 2006 - Can i use webservices? or do i write my own protocol?

Hey all

Ok, this is what i want to achive...

Im actually developing an hybrid workflow controller, that uses JDF and 
JMF (see http://www.cip4.org/overview/overview.html#What_Is_JDF for 
more) - however, i have the situation where i need to send the JMF 
messages to my hardware output devices JMF portal over HTTP post and 
with a specified content-length header.

Now, i know how to set headers and the like, HTTP post is also simple 
enough. But the actual JMF and JDF messages are just XML, just like 
SOAP/XML-RPC. So i was wondering if there was anyway i could leverage 
the action_web_services framework to basicly create a new client? As i 
see that SOAP for instance is set up like this...

module ActionWebService # :nodoc:
  module Client # :nodoc:
    # Implements SOAP client support (using RPC encoding for the 
messages).
    #
   class Soap < Base
   ...
   end
  end
end

I also noticed that there was "+endpoint_uri+ must point at the relevant 
URL to which protocol requests will be sent with HTTP POST"

So, does that mean if i create a new client, i could make it work and 
send the messages how i wanted it to send them? Also, i noticed that in 
the rails trunk it requires the "soap/rpc/driver" and "uri"
libs, im
guessing quite a bit of the functionality for that client comes from 
that SOAP ruby lib?

I guess the bottom line of what im asking is can i use actionwebservice 
to send my JMF messages without it adding any SOAP/XML-RPC gubbins on 
top? Otherwise, if i write my own client, would this stop it adding 
anything to my JMF messages im sending?

Many thanks for anyhelp

Tim

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