- From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@Allegis.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:42:04 -0700
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
- Cc: "'S. Mike Dierken'" <mike@knownow.com>
> 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.
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