file drop apis weren't so bad. drop a file in the input directory with a unique name, wait for the response to appear in the output directory. with samba these

file drop apis weren't so bad. drop a file in the input directory with a unique name, wait for the response to appear in the output directory. with samba these became easy to work with. i wrapped a couple of these with soap webservices back in the day and any reliability issues almost always came from the soap server. ups used to be a gigantic as/400 shop... i wonder if they're still using them...