• To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP and the Web
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 20:30:20 -0400
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <001101c1f15d$bb036920$887ba8c0@mitchum>; from dehora@e... on Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:15:39PM +0100
• References: <20020501153153.B16533@w...> <001101c1f15d$bb036920$887ba8c0@mitchum>

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:15:39PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> 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?

Sure.  HTTP, and every other application protocol, have methods.  SOAP
doesn't.  SOAP (the common use - do I have to keep saying that? 8-) is
at a lower layer in the stack because of this.

MB
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Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
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