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At 01:56 PM 4/16/01 -0400, Mike.Champion@S... wrote: >I'm not too good at accepting things as they are because I'm told to, >and gave up all hope of living in an ideal world at about age 14. Could >someone explain WHY the real world needs XML-RPC in addition to SOAP? And >WHY should "BigCos" support it? Isn't there some subset of SOAP that meets >the needs of indie developers (like the one described in the "Busy >Developer's Guide", maybe?). I suppose you could do it with a subset, but why subset something huge when something small is already there? XML-RPC is a one-trick pony (function calls), but it does that trick awfully well. It's proven pretty stable, and it's available for a lot of platforms. Personally, I'll take XML-RPC for the tasks it performs. If I want something more sophisticated, I'll go straight to XML messaging over HTTP, and steer clear of SOAP entirely. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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