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At 09:03 AM 8/4/00 -0700, Dave Winer wrote: >XML-RPC is alive and well. > >SOAP is coming along, but there aren't many interoperable implementations, >and none of them implement all the possibilities. So interoperability is >still a challenge in SOAP-space, where it's trivial in XML-RPC, and done, >and demonstrated. > >So my advice is this, if XML-RPC does what you need to do, use it. For once, I'll agree with Dave 100%. SOAP may be more 'advanced', but XML-RPC is very convenient and easy to learn. For small projects, and maybe even for some relatively simple big projects, XML-RPC makes a lot of sense. (I like to say that XML-RPC gives you enough rope to hang yourself, but SOAP gives you enough rope to hang yourself and a lot of other people too. Rope is, of course, useful for other things as well!) Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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