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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Tim Bray wrote: > 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 Is it that bad to install a library as part of developing an application? I mean, you install plenty of other libraries most of the time anyway! It hasn't stopped Gnome applications from succeeding (they need a *lot* of libraries). > - 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. I've never seen a serious RPC facility that doesn't have this feature :-) > Also the HTTP prejudice makes it very little work to integrate into > existing web infrastructure. That's closer to the mark > Having said all that, the hype level is really getting silly. Yeah :'-( > -Tim ABS -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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