- From: James Tauber <JTauber@bowstreet.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:41:09 -0400
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> > The issue that started this was the active promotion of non-standard > > APIs and multiple implementations of those APIs. At this point, the > > currently expected (intended, even, by some) usage of RPC-ish protocols > > is for one-off implementations. > I disagree with this assertion. I'm not in the least interested > in one-off implementations. I am extremely interested in allowing > programatic access to my services, and to do so without either > a) dragging in the weight of something like CORBA or b) > implementing my own encoding scheme. I suspect that many > others come to this topic with a similar perspctive. One of the issues seems to be the distinction between a one-off local API that is "webified" as-is versus an implementation independent call to a web service that has a method-call-like structure to it. The text on the wire is potentially the same for both so you don't know necessarily whether you are dealing with a direct, hard-coded procedure call or a generic request interface that just happens to take the form of a procedure call. James -- James Tauber jtauber@bowstreet.com Director XML Technology Bowstreet www.bowstreet.com
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