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> I believe SOAP is so complex that it's an analog to CORBA/IDL. SOAP was intended to facilitate the same programming model but more loosely coupled. So that's
by karmajunkie 9y ago
> I believe SOAP is so complex that it's an analog to CORBA/IDL.
SOAP was intended to facilitate the same programming model but more loosely coupled. So that's not at all far off. And for what it intended to be—a specification for machine-generated bindings and SDKs—it was quite successful. It just didn't make the usability leap over to web development that happens outside an IDE.