- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:17:30 -0700
- To: www-tag@w3.org
David Orchard wrote: > > I disagree that SOAP using HTTP POST is necessarily an RPC mechanism. Many > folks are providing arbitrary document oriented messages using SOAP/HTTP. > In fact, there seems to be an emerging point of view that document/literal > is preferred over rpc. So please, let's not say soap=rpc. It worries me that we're almost done standardizing this thing and still debating the right way to use it. You could argue that the same was true for XML but the issue is much deeper with SOAP. XML had an interoperable core that everyone could agree upon. That is not true of SOAP. For most developers "SOAP RPC over HTTP w/section 5 encoding" *is* the interoperable core and yet for others (let's call them the SOAP intelligencia), it is just a historical artifact. That suggests to me that there is something fishy going on. Paul Prescod
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