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> > SOAP currently offers very > > little (if any) functionality beyond what can be done using direct XML > > interchange over HTTP. You're not looking close enough. It provides Framework for multi-party (i.e., intermediary) interactions Forward-compatible evolution (mustUnderstand) A standard place for putting meta-data, upon which a wide variety of capabilities can be built; cf WS-xxx For example, using WS-Security I can get end-to-end message integrity and selective data privacy, regardless of who else is participating in the messaging. That's pretty cool; I don't know of any other middleware that really provided it, do you? /r$ -- Rich Salz Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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