I am making slow progress working on the edit-this-page2 spiffy content management application for OpenACS 4. While I am working on it, I am also learning about the templating form builder, which is a very powerful, but confusing engine.
Besides that I am still thinking about SOAP and XMLRPC in AOLserver. I checked validator.xmlrpc.com and serveral people have validated various versions of AOLserver. I suspect these are based on my ns_xmlrpc code, but I can't prove it. So I am wondering, who are these people? Not too many people have contacted me about using ns_xmlrpc. It's a half an implementation that was never really fully tested. After I found NSSoap, and TclSOAP, i stopped working on it.
TclSOAP is the only project still being developed. It would be easy to modify it to work with AOLserver. This would require changes mostly to the file names, and writing a native AOLserver transport.
The greater challange is getting AOLserver to play nice with standard Tcl packages. There is a great number of handy tools that could be used if AOLserver properly initialized the global Tcl environment variables in the interpreters. I am surprised noone seems willing to work on improving AOLserver in this way. Without this, AOLserver will never be a real part of the Tcl community.
I guess it will have to wait until a paying client really needs it. Noone really seems to interested in solving these problems in their spare time, me included.