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Arjun Ray wrote: > The SOAP spec has "Microsoft crud" written all over it (as in, > overload it with as many features and complexities as it takes to > convince people that they really shouldn't bother trying to implement > it themselves but just get um, "authorized" software from um, > "official" sources.) Alternatives like WDDX, XML-RPC, and LDO go a > long way to show that the "problem" isn't nearly as complicated as a > reading of the SOAP spec might lead one to believe. > > The trouble is that the marketing machine is going to tout SOAP as > some sort of superset ("more general", "more flexible" - oops, gotta > use W3C speak, sorry - "more evolvable", etc.), so enough people just > might lose sight of the fact that a Light-Weight Protocol could > *really* be enough. Unfortunately XML-RPC just does not cut it, Arjun. Firstly it is very verbose (make that very, very) and secondly it does not give firewalls a lot of help in spotting it. SOAP goes some way to resolving both of these issues. Everything else in SOAP is just a bonus - better handling of arrays, attempts to harmonise with XML Schema, and so on - but welcome bonuses no less. You're right that XML-RPC is dead easy to implement; the argument UserLand uses for championing it is that anyone can implement the software. Unfortunately that doesn't mean that it is industrial-strength. I believe that SOAP is. Best regards, Mark Birbeck x-port.net *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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