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• Use SOAP
  2003-05-26 11:59:18  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  SOAP is a useless waste of time and a wonderful example of NeedlessComplexity. Use HTTP. What else needs to be done besides GETting data, POSTing new data, PUTing changed data and DELETEing dead data? Focus on clean resource-space identifiers [URIs] and meaningful XML blocks. Then, DO NOT wrap them in an XML-RPC or SOAP noise. Just use the data. Focus on getting the existing tools [Mozilla, IE, Opera] to deal with authentication and POST/PUT correctly, rather than creating a whole set of tools. We have a good protocol [http] and a simple way to describe data-languages [xml] -- let's use them.