Good luck with that ! You are not using SOAP because two programmers decided it was the best integration solution for distributed computing . We, you and I, ar

Good luck with that ! You are not using SOAP because two programmers decided it was the best integration solution for distributed computing . We, you and I, are using SOAP because our CIO /Sr. VP was invited to an offsite retreat or management executive seminar where over a course of the finest hooch and blow, an enterprise vendor ( most likely IBM or Oracle) convinced your exec that having SOAP is like having an insurance against personal accountability for project disasters; after all nobody has ever got fired for buying IBM. So rail and rant against SOAP at your own peril. In my last project, I was asked to send a file, that was uploaded by users onto our servers, as a SOAP message over TIBCO where another application read the SOAP message and put the file into a folder where it was processed by a nightly batch job. On the plus side , the managers and executives responsible for the design were all well connected charming people with PMP certification.