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Re: SOAP and the Web

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP and the Web
• From: Rex Brooks <rexb@s...>
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 17:48:32 -0700
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Actually, I was asking what the reasons are, i.e. those impedence mismatches.

Rex


At 2:46 PM -0700 5/1/02, Paul Prescod wrote:
>Rex Brooks wrote:
>>
>>. ..The fact that it anticipates asynchronous
>>  functionality is IMHO the single most necessary feature for what is
>>  called web services.
>
>SOAP "anticipates" asynchronous functionality in roughly the same sense
>that Unicode does. i.e. it says: "that's not our problem."
>
>I can do that with HTTP also.
>
>>  ... Since REST is an architecture and SOAP is
>>  package wrapper method, are there reasons why SOAP could not fit
>>  inside REST?
>
>That's what the TAG is trying to do. But it's a little bit like saying:
>"object oriented programming is a paradigm and awk is a programming
>language. Can't we just use the programming language according to the
>paradigm?" You have to address the impedence mismatches.
>
>  Paul Prescod
>
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