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Stuart Naylor wrote: > ... > > Without any arguments to what is potentially a better method than > another which initiatives seem to be the winning horses. My criterion > for what is a winner is purely based on commercial usage at this moment. > > My main area of interest is in commercial transactions of sensitive data > and I have been looking at EbXML and various others. > > Also there seems to be two approaches of large xml document interaction > V XML RPC such as SOAP on small XML packets. > I can't give you a comparative analysis but I'm pretty well committed to web services, by which I mean the XML Schema / SOAP / WSDL / UDDI technologies structure. Commercially, we have done SOAP over SSL, with certificates. I used to think that WSDL was unnecessary cruft, but now I'm using .NET beta 2 I've started to realise that it is the interface spec, and if you believe in interface-centric development (and I do) then WSDL is probably pivotal, the place to start the automagical code generation. Since we already use XML interfaces between our application components, I'm right at home with the literal document usage of SOAP. Reservations? Performance isn't exactly lightning right now, but I'm just using beta software on an overloaded laptop. I'm pretty sure they'll fix this. Also I haven't tested interoperability yet, though again I'm pretty confident that this is subject to a strong pattern of forces that will lead to a satisfactory outcome. (Thouhg I did twitch when I read that "The " (certification) "tests used by UDDI operators are not published, but instead are part of the overall contractual relationship binding UDDI operators.") Overall, I believe that web services will be the next major internet application Francis.
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