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Re: SOAP and the Web

• To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP and the Web
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:01:45 -0400
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <002401c1f1ca$97a75be0$887ba8c0@mitchum>; from dehora@e... on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:14:55PM +0100
• References: <20020501203020.G16533@w...> <002401c1f1ca$97a75be0$887ba8c0@mitchum>

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:14:55PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> You mean shared methods. A SOAP setup will have at least one method, and
> I can find out their signatures I just don't know what they do
> behavourially.

Exactly!  How useful is that, if you don't know what they do?

Your only choices at this point are;

1. have a built-in expectation of what methods you'll see
2. use a pre-specified set of generic methods

The problem with #1 is that it makes communication impossible without
previous coordination.  This is why RPC can be made to work intra-
corporation (because systems are under the same administrator[1]), but
not so well inter-corporation.

#2 works well on the Internet, as the success of application protocols
like NNTP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP demonstrates.

 [1] http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Fallacies.html (#6)

MB
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Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
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