Well, I don't see HTTP going away either but there is a need to use it effectively. Ceating HTTP query strings with name=value pairs and then parsing results based on agreement that a pipe is used to delimit values is not sufficient. HTML returned is fine for web browser based applications but there's more that can and should be done. Soap tries to solve a big problem and the direction seems correct especially when using servlets. I couldn't think of a better match. Servlets are designed to carry out tasks and return results which can be fitted into different formats. Getting XML formatted responses seems pretty cool to me.
d. Galbreath, Mark wrote: > Five years ago CORBA was supposed to be the panacea for x-platform network > data transfer; 3 years ago it was RMI; 2 years ago it was XML; and for the > past year all we've been hearing about is SOAP. XML has become the > configuration file standard, but as for data transport over the Net? HTTP > is alive and well and I don't see that changing much very soon. I believe > this is a perfect example of Alan Cooper's observation in "The Inmates are > Running the Asylum" whereby developers are using technologies because > they're "cool," and not because they are appropriate. I adhere to the KISS > principle. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: ^BoyInterrupted^ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Servlets + Swing > > > >> Or, if you're a glutton for over-complexified (but buzzword >>compliant) punishment: SOAP. (google for it). Both SOAP and >>XML-RPC have implementations that work through servlets. > > > It's simply how you predict the applicability of your solution. If you feel > that your application has the capability to grow to something really big , > traversing different implementations, SOAP would be THE way to go. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > > -- David Mossakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instinet Corporation 212.310.7275 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
