SOAP, PDS, Project Server 2003 question

[serge]

I am trying to understand what PDS is exactly?

Is this part of Project Server 2002, 2003, or both? What does it do?
Does it replace SOAP or abosulely not?

We have an ASP application running on Win 2003 that does
synchronization with Project Server. It requires SOAP to be installed.

We upgraded from Project Server 2002 to 2003 and someone told
me that SOAP is no longer required when using Project Server 2003.

Is this true? Wasn't SOAP dropped by MS and replaced by something else?

I appreciate any help.

Thank you

 

[SR]

PDS is a web service that allows programs to interact with data in the
project server database through web protocols (HTTP and SOAP) in XML
form. Custom applications can access the PDS web service to access
project server data. Its a little more straight forward to understand
the XML that is exchanged with PDS than to dig into the database
schema in SQL server, and the PDS XML data should be more resiliant to
change in data structure in the case of a service pack altering the
project server schema or future versions of project server. The
project server 2003 sdk has a lot more information on PDS.

S. Robertson

 

[serge]

Thank you S.R. I will search this in the SDK.