• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP and the Web
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:56:15 -0400
• Cc: "'Andrew Dubinsky'" <andy@e...>, "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B3CB@HQ5>; from clbullar@i... on Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:28:33AM -0500
• References: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B3CB@HQ5>

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:28:33AM -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> As far as I can tell, all the major tool vendors also support 
> the REST architecture.  What the pushback is is that for the 
> programmer, it is harder to code REST.  Again, REST requires 
> discipline and SOAP requires a toolkit.  Given that, SOAP 
> will win because the payoffs start immediately and REST is 
> sort of a deferred gratification based on predictable interfaces. 

That discipline isn't gratuitous, it's to enable ad hoc communication
over a network between uncoordinated parties.  Without the discipline,
you lose that.  Which is why we've seen public Web services deployed on
the Internet "blossom" from 35 to 165 in about a year;

http://www.markbaker.ca/2002/04/WebServicesGrowth/

This use of SOAP *cannot* win, no matter how much developers like it, or
how much hype it receives.

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
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