I was searching the Web for $subject, and did not have much luck. May be I did not search right, anyway...
So I thought of compiling a feature list, based on what I know:
- SOAP
- Support for SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2
- Ability to map SOAP fault to exceptions, so that you can try/catch
- SOAP header handling capability
- Message tracing capability on client side. Last request and last response could be accessed.
- WSDL
- Support for WSDL 1.1
- WSDL mode (Technically, in Web services world this is known as contract first model. Contract is the WSDL. You use a given WSDL to write either services and/or clients)
- Non-WSDL mode
- Both services and clients could be implemented without having a WSDL to start with
- Data binding
- When using WSDL mode, can use a class map to define the mapping between XML schemas in WSDL to PHP classes
- Transports
- Obviously HTTP, HTTP raw post data
- Can use HTTP authentication mechanisms
- And also HTTPS
- WS-*
- Can use SOAP header class to add any headers corresponding to a Web services specification
- Interoperability
- Moderate. Works with .NET and Java to some extent
And some observations:
- Packaging
- Is a PHP extension
- Comes bundled with PHP5
- License
- PHP license
- Written in
- C programming language, ground up
- Deemed to be faster than PHP based implementations such as NuSOAP
- Documentation
- Good API documentation
- Some articles and tutorials also available (Including the one I have written where you can see a class diagram)
- Maintenance
- Bugs are fixed regularly
- No major feature additions lately
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