- From: Champion, Mike <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:42:55 -0500
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> > Frank D. Greco wrote: > > > The primary benefit of SOAP is *across* the firewall. I > sincerely doubt you'd convince the major global investment banks that SOAP is > superior to what they already have for *internal* applications. > Maybe in a few years when SOAP (et al) frameworks are available, > but not now. I wouldn't quarrel with this, nor pretend to understand the needs of major global investment banks. But I'd suggest that SOAP is all about leveraging the web infrastructure and expertise that is already in place, be it inside or outside the firewall. Even internal application integration projects could in principle benefit from SOAP et al. (even without the frameworks and wizards) when there is a good synergy between the XML aspect or the HTTP aspect of SOAP and the application in question. For example, using SOAP rather than CORBA could leverage other EAI tools that import/export data in XML or products that implement their own SOAP interfaces. Likewise, if an enterprise has invested heaviliy in an intranet infrastructure with industrial strength VPNs, firewalls, authentication, etc. designed with HTTP and HTML web applications in mind, SOAP should be able to leverage it more directly than CORBA could. Of course, an enterprise with a strong, working CORBA (or COM) infrastructure and experience base should probably keep on using that for internal work.
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