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Re: XML-RPC or SOAP

• From: "Betty L. Harvey" <harvey@e...>
• To: Dave Winer <dave@u...>
• Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:20:20 -1000 (HST)

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

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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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