5 ms·
I'm no fan of SOAP, but as a C# guy I'm curious to know what took so long?
by vyrotek 16y ago
I'm no fan of SOAP, but as a C# guy I'm curious to know what took so long?
- silverbax88 16y agoI've got the same question. But I've written them in both Java and C#. I worked on a project recently where we had a team of Java guys who worked on a SOAP implementation for a month. They could not get it to work in any way, shape or form. It was handed to me, and three of us did it a half an hour. All custom SOAP, still worked. I just don't comprehend why this seems so hard to people on Hacker News. SOAP is just another protocol and as messy as any other.
- steveklabnik 16y ago> SOAP is just another protocol and as messy as any other. I think that's where you and most of the other people on the thread are losing it. SOAP is way messier than just good old REST. (disclaimer: I've never been forced to actually use SOAP.)
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoI have had to do both: SOAP is WAY more messy.
- orangecat 16y agoI'm not sure of the details. I vaguely recall there was a version mismatch with the provider's API, and at one point they were sending UTF-8 data when the header said UTF-16, or vice versa.
- GFischer 16y agoI've had that problem before, it's not hard to fix if the provider helps (OTOH if the provider doesn't, I guess some hacks should do the trick as well). I'm not at the office so I don't have the code at hand.