> People have been doing application integration for decades. > Most of it, as Francis mentions, is/was ad hoc. Wall Street > has been using rpc, corba, tooltalk, tibco and home-grown > integration frameworks for a *long* time. I've been doing this > type of work since the late 80's. > > I hope you SOAP-ists don't think that "behind the firewall" > app integration is a new thing. > Don't worry Frank, some of us are making sure that SOAP is up to the job for asynchronous and synchronous connectivity. There is still a lot of education needed within the internet community on the advantages of asynchronous messaging :-) > The primary benefit of SOAP is *across* the firewall. I sincerely doubt > you'd convince the major global investment banks that SOAP is superior > to what they already have for *internal* applications. Maybe in > a few years when SOAP (et al) frameworks are available, but not now. > > Frank G. John XML Technology and Messaging, IBM UK Ltd, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN Tel: (work) +44 (0)1962 815188 (home) +44 (0)1722 781271 Fax: +44 (0)1962 816898 Notes Id: John Ibbotson/UK/IBM email: john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.comReceived on Thursday, 10 January 2002 11:06:21 GMT
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