Java rocks. Personally I'm not a fan of MS. However, I saw a sneak preview
of .NET in action last July and was astonished by the possible potential for
this. There are many aspects of .NET, SOAP being just one of them. I saw
code being written in a single GUI development environment where VB called
C# called COBOL(??!? I'm serious here). The code was debugged in a single
debugger and jumped seamlessly from line to line across different languages.
Calling a function/method in a different language was as simple as scrolling
through MS's intellisense dropdowns, you don't even need to know what
language the relevant function is written in. ASP has been converted to run
with the .NET common language runtime(CLR), meaning that you can write ASP
in any language compatible with the CLR (i.e. VB, C#, COBOL, umpteen other
languages currently being converted).
Most cool was the way in which you can create web services. This is where
SOAP comes into play. By tagging a function in a CLR compatible language
with a 'web service' tag the function becomes exposed and available across
the net to anyone else using SOAP development environments (admittedly only
.NET at the moment).
There were many, many oohs and aahs at the conference, from my position they
were well deserved. I'm not a fan of MS but don't write them off. As a
developer I haven't such a potential for a revolution since Windows 2.0
first came out.
-----Original Message-----
From: David VanHorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 April 2001 17:59
To: Neil Kimber; Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay"; 'Stewart Taylor'; 'Brandon
Orther'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] New buzz SOAP?
>
>This is going to be big because it is a very large part of the new
Microsoft
>.NET strategy. In essence it will enable everyone and everything to talk
>together without worrying about hardware, software or OS's
incompatibilities
>(well, that's the theory, anyway). Of course, I'm sure that MS will make
>their own non-open extensions and tie everyone into their World<grin>.
I can't count the number of times I've heard this promise..
Anyone remember how Java was supposed to take over the world?
>The best thing about SOAP is the sense of humour of the designers. Part of
>the SOAP toolkit is called the Remote Object Proxy Engine, this is
>responsible for the consumption of dispatching of SOAP messages. So, you
get
>SOAP on a ROPE!
Don't drop the SOAP! :)
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