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On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:15:39PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote: > There's simple, though non-obvious reasons why the common use of SOAP > will never see this type of growth. Primarily, it's because the a > priori contract that is present between a SOAP sender and a SOAP > receiver is insufficient to generate any network effects. HTTP provides > a much richer contract. And for that matter, so does FTP, SMTP, and > every other application protocol in existence. > >> > > Can you substantiate that claim? Sure. HTTP, and every other application protocol, have methods. SOAP doesn't. SOAP (the common use - do I have to keep saying that? 8-) is at a lower layer in the stack because of this. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@p... http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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