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Thanks Dave and Joshua for the valuable input. Yes, XML-RPC is working for us, and it's very easy. It's a little verbose though (<params><param><struct><member>.....), especially if you're just sending name=value pairs. Cheers Phil Dave Winer wrote: > I'll get this one! ;-> > > On another mail list they're asking if CORBA is dead. > > Study the history of software, nothing ever dies, yet people who for one > reason or another *want* things to die say they're dead. > > XML-RPC is alive and well. > > SOAP is coming along, but there aren't many interoperable implementations, > and none of them implement all the possibilities. So interoperability is > still a challenge in SOAP-space, where it's trivial in XML-RPC, and done, > and demonstrated. > > So my advice is this, if XML-RPC does what you need to do, use it. > > Dave > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Philip Gooch" <philg@e...> > To: <xml-dev@x...> > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:52 AM > Subject: XML-RPC or SOAP > > > Hi there > > > > In the project I am involved in, we are looking at using HTTP xml-based > > remote procedure calls as an alternative to RMI. Our programmer's are > > new to XML, so I suggested we use XML-RPC (no namespaces or attributes - > > very simple). However, someone replied along the lines that XML-RPC is > > dead and we should use SOAP instead. > > > > Can anyone here make any suggestions or comments? > > > > > > Phil > >
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