SOAP transport
From A-SMIL.org
SMIL media players often also provide a network interface based on SOAP (historically short for "Simple Object Access Protocol").
SOAP Interfaces
A typical SOAP network API supports the following objects and methods from a digital signage media player:
Session
- Login(): initiate a new command session
- Logout(): end a command session
ContentManager
- CreateObject(): upload a file into the media player
- FindObjet(): enumerate files in the media player
- RemoveResource(): delete a file in the media player
MediaControl
- Play(): play a SMIL
Related
Programming tools including the Visual Studio Express directly suports making SOAP calls from Windows. More information is available below.
- Managing SMIL players from Visual Studio Express
- Sample project: Hornet 1.0
- WSDL description of the SOAP interface
