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RE: Is XML-REST more scalable than SOAP?

• To: 'Jason Diamond' <jason@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Is XML-REST more scalable than SOAP?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:55:12 -0500

I hate to dash your hopes, but that will greatly depend 
on the domain(s) of given type(s).  The idea that 
standards wonks can hammer down the processes of 
different groups into a set of singleton documents 
is hopeful at best for lots of what would otherwise 
be interesting and profitable businesses.  Yes, one 
can cite a lot of limited successes, say the 
rendering vocabularies where the reason for multiple 
languages is usually local software, but for say, 
legal systems, it is almost hopeless given some 
set of boundaries (eg, countries).  So XSLT is good 
and even that won't fix the problems of really 
disjunct enterprise processing models.

I agree wholeheartedly that REST can't solve 
that.  It may be the case that SOAP RPC is 
easier to manage in these cases precisely 
because one might prefer the edge system 
to open an API and code to that.  It will be 
faster than trying to get agreements for 
ironing out the disjunct domains.  Divide 
and conquer on fixed price.

len

From: Jason Diamond [mailto:jason@i...]

> In summary, the argument that I was making is that using REST helps reduce
> the number of access methods (i.e., accessing is scalable), but the
> "processing" of n arbitrary XML documents is non-scalable.

Why are you expecting your machine to process every XML vocabulary on the
Web? Won't most business only interact with sites that output XML
vocabularies that they can actually process? I don't see the scalability
problem for specific domains where the number of vocabularies is limited
(hopefully to 1).

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