• To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@a...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP and the Web
• From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:12:11 -0400
• Cc: "Mark Baker" <distobj@a...>,"Bullard, Claude L Len\"" <clbullar@i...>,"'Andrew Dubinsky'" <andy@e...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
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Hi Mark,

Mark said:
> 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.

Didier replies:
Judicious.

cheers
Didier PH Martin

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