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Re: Stop SOAP

#31
We should use SOPA againt SOAP and ask internet providers acroos the globe to block access to every server that runs a SOAP webservice.

Re: Stop SOAP

#33

I'll admit to being completely ignorant about the benefits of using SOAP to communicate between servers. However I can say that for server->client communication it is the worse data representation I've ever had to work with and I genuinely hope we see the end of it. JSON maybe not be perfect, but it's so much better at delivering a structured data model then xml is.

You seem to be confused between SOAP and Restful XML Web Services? They are different...

You don't think you can replace one with the other?

Re: Stop SOAP

#39
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's no excuse (and if you read the article you'd know that it acknowledges this fact).

Agreed, When i started SOAP around 2000, it was very simple. After that we for more into the awful WSDL 1 (WSDL 2 is better). But the number of WS-* and the different implementations that are all incompatible is just a nightmare.

In 2001 I gave a talk (I believe at OSCon, to a packed audience) titled "Why SOAP Sucks". I started with a print-out of all the specs required to implement SOAP fully (there were lots of incomplete implementations around at the time, but barely any complete ones). It was more than two reams of paper (around 1100 pages of spec, if I recall). It had quite an "impact".
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