(Fwd) Re: Two uses of SOAP

Hello,

Regarding nbr 2 below, please elaborate! Is an understanding of
distributed asynchronous messaging strictly necessary for a user 
of RPC? How is this different than CGI POST in the hands of HTML 
coders?

RC


> The disadvantages? Oh, I can think of a few on that one:
> 
> 1) Because it is essentially a large clear-text message, it requires
> encryption of the message for anything involving secure information; for a
> p2p chat system the overhead that this imposes is fairly minimal, for a
> large-scale e-commerce envelope used in RPCs the construction of the
> message, the encryption, the increased size for often relatively small
> amounts of data moving either way and the parseing of XML structures on both
> ends brings a significant cost to the total transaction.
> 
> 2) I worry about putting an RPC mechanism into the hands of VB scripters and
> HTML coders who have absolutely no clue about handling distributed
> asynchronous messages, or worse, that do but have malicious intent. I worry
> that there is no checksum or integrity checking.
> 
> 3) MustUnderstand could prove to be a significant hurdle across multiple
> peers.
> 
> 4) I worry about the plethora of namespaces that we're introducing. While it
> may make sense to separate functionality into distinct messages, I can't
> help but think about the problems attendant when Netscape moved their RSS
> spec around -- we may be introducing dependencies here that are neither
> necessary nor intended.
> 
> Just a few of my thoughts. I'm definitely still something of a newbie when
> it comes to SOAP, so some or perhaps all of these issues may already be
> resolved, but I think it might be worth asking this question of other people
> who aren't so close to the issue or the specification.
> 
> -- Kurt Cagle
> -- Co-author, XML Schema, Wrox Press
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank D. Greco" <fgreco@crossroadstech.com>
> To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 6:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Two uses of SOAP
> 
> 
> > At 09:49 PM 7/27/2001 -0400, Mark Baker wrote:
> >  >Just thought I'd write down more about the two uses of SOAP that
> >  >I'm familiar with.
> >
> > Actually, anyone have any thoughts (or URL's) of the
> > disadvantages of SOAP?  Something just doesn't feel right
> > about it.
> >
> > Frank G.
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