> We fought so hard to get rid of crazy RPC protocols (COM+, CORBA) and abominations like SOAP and people keep trying to bring them back. For those that dare r

> We fought so hard to get rid of crazy RPC protocols (COM+, CORBA) and abominations like SOAP and people keep trying to bring them back. For those that dare re-kindle the old ways of RPC, only despair, anguish and insanity await. The mindless boilerplate, the infinite depths of parser recursion, the envelopes within envelopes, the madness inducing mysteries of undeclared encoding, the deadly omission of byte order markers, the incomprehensibly complex, yet vague error messages... and the network. The network is waiting to devour your function calls, returning only the broken skeleton and ruptured entrails of what were once perfectly beautiful, good, honest and peace loving return values. The old ways must be locked away, and cast into the deepest fissure in the deepest depths of the ocean, where there is no chance they be rediscovered and unwittingly released on humanity. Or, how I feel when a vendor sends documentation for their SOAP web service.