[Zope3-dev] Re: SOAP support?

[Andreas Jung]

--On 8. Januar 2007 10:42:34 -0330 Rocky Burt <rocky at serverzen.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 14:54 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
>>   http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/
>>
>> I think that an add-on product which provided a SOAP server,
>> implementing one of the competing semantics, could be interesting as a
>> starting point, although it might not be terribly resuable.
>
> While I'm not necessarily a huge SOAP advocate (personally I just want
> RPC that works) that pasted link does a *very* good job of portraying a
> subjective view on how confusing soap is.  That is... it's only
> propaganda.  Sticking with just SOAP (no wsdl, no uddi, no xml schema)
> you can make services as simple as xml-rpc.

I fully agree with that. SOAP is widely adopted but everything else
on SOAP might be considers as YAGNI.

>
> Everything beyond standard soap tries to give it an infinite amount of
> power that is best compared to the extremely large number of corba
> specifications.

This stuff is in some way too overengineered and too complex for being 
adopted in projects. Specs that are only understandable for the editors are 
specs for the trashcan.

Andreas
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