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What if SOAP had never happened?
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SOAP is enterprise |
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2005-03-07 06:47:55 |
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cutlass2003
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its sods law that some things stick over other things....SOAP and its associated standards should be considered a body of research, underpinning and demonstrating what is will take to turn the web into the foundation for services orientated architecture; instead of a set of accepted specifications with a capital S.
We consider SOAP a failure because we expect such complicated specification processes to output something useful and workable...in our lifetimes.
I have problems with the entire WS stack (the same icky feeling lingers of things like XML Schema, XLink, and various other specs) though they are more about execution rather then the underlying assumptions.
Good ideas tend to crop up again and again over the years, SOA being the latest incarnation of CORBA, etc etc...I have no doubt that something will stick eventually; be it one part SOAP, REST or SOAP-AT-REST....
Ultimately, the SOAP WS* stack IMHO was always intended towards enterprise level development; which in reality there probably are only about 500-1000 or so type projects running worldwide at any one time. To use SOAP on most projects would be analogous to expecting someone blogging or maintaining their own personal website to adhere to ISO type standards process....its not needed.
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