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Lively discussion on SOAP

If you get the basic idea of web services but are still looking to get your head around SOAP (I know I am) the lively discussion currently taking place in Sam Ruby’s comment section looks like a great place to start.

Posted 4th April 2003 at 2:54 pm

This is Lively discussion on SOAP by Simon Willison, posted on 4th April 2003.

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I was just reading that, got to the bottom... a Simon pingback :) Not really a good place to start, though. I think you'd be better off finding the SOAP spec... From the outside I still think that XML-RPC introduces too much overhead, and is an abuse of XML :-) Similarly for SOAP. Unfortunatly companies want programmers without a decent programming education to program web services, and CORBA is just too big for a non-enterprise programmer to bother with. SOAP and XML-RPC fill the gap, but do we really want that gap to be filled?
Swannie - 4th April 2003 16:11 - #

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