RE: Another whenToUseGet-7 counter-proposal

Mark Baker said:

> You don't need a GET binding of SOAP in order to use SOAP in a Web
> friendly manner, you just need to *also* use GET (and PUT and DELETE,
> where appropriate) by itself.  For example, I could send a SOAP message
> with HTTP POST to a resource, and then invoke GET on that same resource
> to observe the state change induced by the POST.
>
> MB
> --
> Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
> Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@planetfred.com
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>

This approach requires two client invocations to perform a single
request/response operation. Perhaps it's more Web-friendly, but it isn't
more developer-friendly or performance-friendly.

Anne

Received on Wednesday, 24 April 2002 09:51:16 UTC