USe FUll (Re: Which Web services are the most bestest ones?)

[Mark Baker]

> I know I know, you've said this dozens of times. But it's time to move on
> Mark, these things are fixtures now, for good reason -- they factor out a
> fair amount of difficult decision-making and allow developers and users
> choice, and of course meet any reasonable definition of web service. If you
> think any other protocols are going to come along equal to SOAP and XML-RPC
> please let me know so we can evangelize them and build support for them in
> our products. Dave

You know my answer to this Dave; HTTP.  If there's any moving on to be done,
it's from RPC to HTTP.  HTTP is a newer technology than RPC.  I have many years
of implementation experience with RPC, and I'm telling you that HTTP is a better
way to do things.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that RPC-over-HTTP services can call themselves
web services, but I refuse to accept anybody's definition of that term that
excludes existing, or future, HTTP-based web services.

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