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At 09:52 AM 8/4/00 -0700, Dave Winer wrote: >What does the size of a project have to do with it? Volume of traffic can matter, as can the complexity created by multiple flows that might interact with each other in some way. >How do you measure the size of a project? You can't measure them in any objective way. Amazing how different people see 'size' differently. >Further, the complexities (or lack of) in any protocol are completely hidden >behind APIs. I do SOAP and XML-RPC with equal ease. The only issue is what >they interoperate with. (And perhaps performance, but I doubt if there's any >difference between the two encodings.) You can hide the protocol complexity behind the API, but you can't easily hide the side-effects of going out to the network to get an answer, especially in programs with multiple threads where sequence might matter. None of that's impossible to hide, by any means - but it does take some extra consideration to make the rope work the way it's supposed to. Don't get me wrong - I like XML-RPC very very much. It does what it does very well. 'What it does' is a _little_ trickier than a normal function call, though. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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