RE: Quick Survey - Use SOAP - results

> From: S. Mike Dierken [mailto:mike@knownow.com]
> [...]
> The results are mixed & I don't think we can draw any real 
> conclusions from
> them - there were a lot of duplicate numbers and I was hoping 
> for a pure
> ranking.
> Here are the averages anyway:
> 
> 2.1 - synchronous request/response generic XML
> 2.8 - synchronous request/response RPC method calls
> 2.2 - asynchronous message to a queue (single consumer)
> 3.4 - asynchronous message to a topic (multiple subscribers)
> 2.6 - other

Well, one thing that can clearly be seen from these numbers is that SOAP has
clearly evolved from its RPC roots to be seen as a viable substrate for more
generalized messaging schemes. In fact, a narrow majority of the respondents
seem more interested in the latter than in RPC. 

Considering that SOAP is still widely viewed as simply a way of doing RPC
with XML over HTTP, I think this is pretty significant.

Received on Monday, 2 October 2000 14:50:35 UTC