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-----Original Message----- From: david.lyon@c... [mailto:david.lyon@c...] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:35 PM To: Rich Salz Cc: XML Developers List Subject: Re: A bunch of components, but no mandated organization - reasonable? Rich, > > Absolutely not true... you conveniently forgot the web server > > and the soap layers and a whole lot of other practical > > complexities... it's a multi-level stack system for > > crying out loud. > > Only if you let it be. I guess my earlier note was too obtuse. If you > don't need all the WS-xxx stuff, *don't use it.* If you don't need an > Apache or IIS implementation for HTTP, *don't use it.* If you want to > send "raw" XML over TCP, future-proof yourself and put your elements > inside a SOAP container. Is this more clear? Now it's finally clear - I didn't know that. Maybe reading all the vendor brochures has confused me. > > Let me ask you a question though... do you actually > > use it in your day to day business? or is it merely > > something you just recommend to others to buy? > > I used to use it more before my current job, which is now focused on > building infrastructure. But if I were going to build a distributed > application today, I'd make it SOAP-based, absolutely. (Did you intend > to make your question kind of snippy? That's a rhetorical question -- > of course you did. :) I thought so. Not uncommon in any case. So have you done any distributed apps with soap? or any in the pipeline? David ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> <a href="http://www.avidware.net/">Microsoft Certified Partner los angeles</a>
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