• To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@a...>,"'Didier PH Martin'" <martind@n...>
• Subject: RE: SOAP and the Web
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 23:15:39 +0100
• Cc: "'Bullard, Claude L Len\"'" <clbullar@i...>,"'Andrew Dubinsky'" <andy@e...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <20020501153153.B16533@w...>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@a...] 
>>
There's simple, though non-obvious reasons why the common use of SOAP
will never see this type of growth.  Primarily, it's because the a
priori contract that is present between a SOAP sender and a SOAP
receiver is insufficient to generate any network effects.  HTTP provides
a much richer contract.  And for that matter, so does FTP, SMTP, and
every other application protocol in existence.
>>

Can you substantiate that claim?

And why would business programming (read: middleware) ever require the
growth curves of a mass medium?

Bill de hOra

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