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Re: What does SOAP really add?

• To: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Subject: Re: What does SOAP really add?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 21 Apr 2002 17:03:00 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20020421165318.C6973@w...>
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Thanks, Mark.  I'll take a closer look at all of these.  

I still can't see how these are exciting enough features to justify all
the hoopla over SOAP, but perhaps some more reading is in order.

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 16:53, Mark Baker wrote:
> >From a REST POV, SOAP adds this;
> 
> - mandatory extension mechanism (previously seen in PEP[1] and
> RFC 2774[2])
> - well defined intermediary model (previously seen in PEP[1], and to a
> lesser extent, HTTP 1.1)
> - XML syntax for the above
> 
> Nothing to sneeze at, but given that hardly anybody takes advantage of
> these features, the true value of SOAP will never be realized.  IMO,
> developers will consider it a failure long before they recognize what
> it's really good at.
> 
>  [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-http-pep
>  [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2774.txt
> 
> MB
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> Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
> Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
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> 
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