On 11/4/06, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jorge Vargas wrote: > > On 11/4/06, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jorge Vargas > >>wrote: > >> > >> > >>>and please please don't go to corba we need to kill that. > >> > >>Have you real reasons or is this a religious thing? As I see it Corba is > >>much better supported by Python libs than SOAP is. > >> > > > > I see ZSI as a very good engine for SOAP as for xmlrpc it's "better" > > since you can interact with a browser and then you can even have json > > rpc. > > > > but yes ur right is mostly because of religious reasons :) > > > When SOAP can do everything that Corba can do, and as efficiently, it > might stand a chance of displacing it. I see SOAP as essentially an ugly > bloated NIH response of the Microsoft camp to an open specification that > achieved all its goals in an elegant way. And all to allow inappropriate > remote-method execution through port 80 to avoid the corporate firewall. > Which ultimately just made firewalling port 80 that much more difficult. > I have to disagree WSDL is a great standard and SOAP is great for transfering data from point a to point b. and it's very usefull for giving an interface for people to use like all those web2.0 api's out there.
I agree on setting a server on port 80 to be a problem but that's a deployment issue I have never set a SOAP server on port 80 myself. > Microsoft is a poor church, and very uncaring of its adherents. So take > your religious reasons and leave Corba alone until SOAP is an effective > competitor ;-) > I'm sorry it's probably that I have seen some many bad Corba implementations at work that I just hate them. I recently found out that gnome applets are implemented on top of Corba and I'm very impress. > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com > Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com > Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
