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Soap isn't really good, but its not just MS who pushed it. In the 90s it was endorsed by giants like IBM and Oracle
by shimi 16y ago
Soap isn't really good, but its not just MS who pushed it. In the 90s it was endorsed by giants like IBM and Oracle
- thecoffman 16y agoCompletely right - its not a Microsoft problem as much as its an "enterprise" problem. IT Managers love things like SOAP.
- pak 16y agoAnd they should. It's easy to turn a WSDL into an exhibit for a contract, because it is a description of an API that can be converted to human readable and machine readable formats. There is no equivalent for REST, and most REST services have a loose interpretation of what it means to be "RESTful". Try doing serious, paid-availability integration with REST and watch the managers tear out their hair and the lawyers weep.
- RickRoll 16y agoHuh? Microsoft was on the committee and big parts of SOAP design came from MS's DCOM - the most widely used RPC toolkit at the time.