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RE: SOAP and the Web

• To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@a...>
• Subject: RE: SOAP and the Web
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:14:55 +0100
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@a...] 
>
> 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.  

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.

Bill de hÓra

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