[Zope3-dev] Re: SOAP support?

[Patrick Gerken]

On 1/8/07, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:
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> --On 8. Januar 2007 10:42:34 -0330 Rocky Burt <rocky at serverzen.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 14:54 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
> >>   http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> I fully agree with that. SOAP is widely adopted but everything else
> on SOAP might be considers as YAGNI.
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> > 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.
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> 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.



Reading wsdl is pita, but soap support without wsdl support is of no value
for me, and I would not be surprised if I there are that many people that do
not have to adhere to some complicated wsdl spec.

Best regards,

             Patrick
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