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Just curious, does anyone still care about SOAP? It may be alive inside some companies' intranets but it seems to be dead on the public web. When I've develope
by xchecker 18y ago
Just curious, does anyone still care about SOAP? It may be alive inside some companies' intranets but it seems to be dead on the public web.
When I've developed APIs, people clamor for JSON, REST, and serialized PHP. Maybe I'm in some non-Microsoft, non-Java ghetto?
- wheels 18y agoIt's used by a lot of enterprise software -- like the kind that will still be running more or less unchanged a decade from now. I find it a pain in the ass to write SOAP interfaces, but I don't mind at all working with them. Running a compiler on the WSDL file for my programming language of choice is often a lot faster to get up and running than wrapping a REST API and WADL seems not to have really taken off.
- sh1mmer 18y agoI didn't say I cared about SOAP. Just that I was writing a book. It isn't on SOAP, but I do need to look at the best of SOAP as a comparison.