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• Subject: RE: Can you stand yet another SOAP-RPC vs HTTP GET question?
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:01:23 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <0204200504401U.00885@morgaine>

 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Berjon [mailto:robin@k...]
> 
> The fact is that the programming world is driven by mediocrity.
> Genuine mediocrity, ie not actual poorness but simply code of low
> or moderate  quality. 

Robin,

Accepted. That doesn't explain much here. It might explain how SOAP
itself, or Java, or C# come into being, as enabling tools for the
mediocre. But in choosing a SOAP API, over extending an existing
URL API to return 'richer' data structures;  _if_ there is poorness
or low quality, it's that of design, not programming. I could write
excellent code to accept or generate Google's SOAP. The programming
is incidental, what matters is what Fred Brooks calls essence.


> Of course there are other factors, such as hype (an XML-enabled
> app is  nowhere near as hypable as a SOAP-enabled app these days)

The first that comes to my mind about SOAP these days is
'groupthink'. For and against it.

Bill de hÓra

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