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Enterprise software is where much of the industry is employed. SOAP is becoming more prevalent, not less.
by absconditus 16y ago
Enterprise software is where much of the industry is employed. SOAP is becoming more prevalent, not less.
- dansingerman 16y agoThis is a thread about web development though.
- absconditus 16y agoCan enterprise software not be web-based?
- dansingerman 16y agoYes it can. In fact if the article was about how enterprise web development using SOAP and XML was broken I'd be fully supportive of it, given how web development has matured past that to leaner, more suitable technologies (REST/JSON) But that's really a different conversation.
- absconditus 16y agoYou must be using "web development" in a way that I have never encountered before.
- pavel_lishin 16y ago> Enterprise software is where much of the industry is employed. > SOAP is becoming more prevalent, not less. [ citation needed ]
- absconditus 16y agoIf you find the first statement controversial then I suggest stepping outside of the world of HN once in a while. As to the second claim, SOAP is very popular with Java and .Net developers, especially when they have taken up the latest fad, SOA. There are also entire industries, such as healthcare, that are heavily pushing SOAP-based standards for data exchange.
- ebiester 16y agoSOAP seems to have its niches, but I live in the enterprise world myself and even those using SOA seem to be moving away from SOAP when they can. And when it comes to medical systems, most of the time JSON wouldn't be enough anyway.
- chc 16y agoI think you're missing the mark if you condemn "Web development" as a whole just because enterprise culture is pathological.