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 Betty, The Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) recently announced their support for ebXML standards in a press release dated 7/31/00, the full release is located at: http://www.8760.com/gci.pdf Their announced support for ebXML standards is located on page 3 of the press release. FYI - The following organizations are GCI members: CORPORATE MEMBERS OF THE GLOBAL COMMERCE INITIATIVE BOARD Retailers AHOLD AMC AUCHAN CARREFOUR COSTCO CORP. DELHAIZE GROUP FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION THE HOME DEPOT KINGFISHER MARKS & SPENCER METRO SEARS ROEBUCK TESCO WAL*MART STORES INC. Manufacturers BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO THE COCA-COLA COMPANY DANONE GROUP GILLETTE HENKEL JOHNSON & JOHNSON KAO CORPORATION KODAK KRAFT FOODS MARS NESTLE S.A. NEWELL RUBBERMAID PHILIPS PROCTER & GAMBLE RALPH LAUREN SARA LEE/DE UNILEVER VF CORPORATION WARNER LAMBERT Regards, Dick Brooks Group 8760 110 12th Street North Birmingham, AL 35203 dick@8... 205-250-8053 Fax: 205-250-8057 http://www.8760.com/ InsideAgent - Empowering e-commerce solutions > -----Original Message----- > From: Betty L. Harvey [mailto:harvey@e...] > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 6:20 PM > To: Dave Winer > Cc: Simon St.Laurent; xml-dev@x... > Subject: Re: XML-RPC or SOAP > > > > I am very much interested in this topic. I am working on several > projects that are have to make a commitment to a specific > protocol soon. > > Do you know of any pointers where the benefits of each are > discussed? > > Also, is anyone thinking about tpaML or ebXML transport protocols? > > Betty > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ > Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 > Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | > harvey@e... | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp > URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/ > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ > > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Dave Winer wrote: > > > What does the size of a project have to do with it? > > > > How do you measure the size of a project? > > > > Further, the complexities (or lack of) in any protocol are > completely hidden > > behind APIs. I do SOAP and XML-RPC with equal ease. The only > issue is what > > they interoperate with. (And perhaps performance, but I doubt > if there's any > > difference between the two encodings.) > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> > > To: <xml-dev@x...> > > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 9:22 AM > > Subject: Re: XML-RPC or SOAP > > > > > > > At 09:03 AM 8/4/00 -0700, Dave Winer wrote: > > > >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. > > > > > > For once, I'll agree with Dave 100%. > > > > > > SOAP may be more 'advanced', but XML-RPC is very convenient > and easy to > > > learn. For small projects, and maybe even for some > relatively simple big > > > projects, XML-RPC makes a lot of sense. > > > > > > (I like to say that XML-RPC gives you enough rope to hang > yourself, but > > > SOAP gives you enough rope to hang yourself and a lot of > other people too. > > > Rope is, of course, useful for other things as well!) > > > > > > Simon St.Laurent > > > XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. > > > http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books > > 
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