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Weblog:   SOAP? Bah! What's wrong with /bin/sh?
Subject:   Shhh!!!
Date:   2002-04-18 11:10:37
From:   mchampion
If everyone knew that you can do 95% of what ordinary people would do with SOAP + WSDL + VS.NET using HTTP and a few lines of script, they wouldn't have to replace their world wide web infrastructure with "SOAP Web" infrastructure! That would be bad for the economy! Bad for the Web Services bubble!


The Google web api is an interesting example. I mainly want to get some results back from Google that I can read with a program or stick into a web page; why must I go through all that pain (even if it is automated via WSDL) to do that? They should just do what Meerkat does and give me an option on the query to return data in various "flavors".