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RE: What does SOAP really add?

• To: 'Mark Baker' <distobj@a...>
• Subject: RE: What does SOAP really add?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:44:44 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

If "you're doing anything over the Internet with people that you haven't
previously met and may not trust"  you are probably a small child or a teenager and your 
parents should take away your privileges on the family account.

Seriously:  anyone who is thinking about this stuff without 
really understanding business contracts for services should 
step back and think some more.  Otherwise, one risks  
becoming the Scarecrow singing "If I only had a brain...."

I'm curious.  Do you really believe that many services need 
to scale to the number of potential Internet users?  That 
won't happen except possibly for very trivial services 
and even then, it isn't likely.  People are confusing 
surfing web pages with accessing functions.  Not the same 
thing at all.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@a...]

Any task that can be coordinated with RPC, can be coordinated with
REST in a manner more suitable for Internet scale distribution.  If
you're doing anything over the Internet with people that you haven't
previously met and may not trust, RPC is the wrong technology.

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