On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:25 AM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Eventually you'll find that the entire world became a nail for the XML > hammer and that things like SOAP, XML-RPC, are just not very good due to the > fact that sending XML documents on a wire for simple RPC calls is grossly > inefficient, and there's a lot better technology out there for these sorts > of things.
as long as you don't care about the (observed) 100:1 ratio of XML glop to data in, e.g., the Python XMLRPC stuff, it's great. Yep, I observed that ratio when Xen made the cut to XML-RPC: 3000 bytes of RPC to send 30 bytes of data. It's impressive: gigE gets reduced to 10 Mb ethernet in no time; XML-RPC turns the network clock back by 20 years. Software choices have hardware consequences. > That said,XML is still here, and you kind of have to learn to play ball > with it. Funny, I at first read this as "That's sad, XML is still here, ..." Then I had to re-read it. ron
