[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: What does SOAP really add?


Re:  What does SOAP really add?
From a REST POV, SOAP adds this;

- mandatory extension mechanism (previously seen in PEP[1] and
RFC 2774[2])
- well defined intermediary model (previously seen in PEP[1], and to a
lesser extent, HTTP 1.1)
- XML syntax for the above

Nothing to sneeze at, but given that hardly anybody takes advantage of
these features, the true value of SOAP will never be realized.  IMO,
developers will consider it a failure long before they recognize what
it's really good at.

 [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-http-pep
 [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2774.txt

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
http://www.markbaker.ca   http://www.planetfred.com

PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
 

Stylus Studio has published XML-DEV in RSS and ATOM formats, enabling users to easily subcribe to the list from their preferred news reader application.


Stylus Studio Sponsored Links are added links designed to provide related and additional information to the visitors of this website. they were not included by the author in the initial post. To view the content without the Sponsor Links please click here.

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.