- From: Kurt Cagle <cagle@olywa.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:23:03 -0700
- To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
This came across the wire a little while ago. If true (and not merely a propaganda piece) it has some disturbing implications for both SOAP and messaging in general. As a general summary, it says that ebXML has decided to pass on SOAP in favor of MIME-XML: http://www.sdtimes.com/news/015/story1.htm -- Kurt Cagle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Brennan" <Michael_Brennan@Allegis.com> To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org> Cc: "'S. Mike Dierken'" <mike@knownow.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: 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. > >
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