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At 02:01 PM 21/08/01 -0400, Champion, Mike wrote: >I'm glad you posted this question ... I was about to do the same thing. >Irrespective of the details of SOAP, UDDI/WSDL/whatever, .NET ... why has >this become the "next big thing?" You can see XML-RPC/SOAP and hangers-on as an RPC facility that is unusually transparent - in that you can see how it all works and implement it yourself without recourse to complex libraries beyond an XML parser - and at the same time unusually opaque - in that you really aren't going to break things by changing from a little-endian to a big-endian architecture, or from Win2K to Solaris, or whatever. These are probably good things in an RPC facility. Also the HTTP prejudice makes it very little work to integrate into existing web infrastructure. Having said all that, the hype level is really getting silly. -Tim
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