What's the point? 1. Make messages human readable. Though no human will ever read these messages. 2. Make messages self-describing. Though no computer will ever understand these descriptions. 3. Make RPC simple. Most other RPCs are simpler. 4. Make RPC cross-platform. CORBA already does it. And it does much, much more than SOAP in much, much more efficient way. 5. Communicate through firewalls. Nobody asks network administrators what they think about it. I stronlgy believe that SOAP is just another hype. Oleg Dulin wrote: > > So, I am just curious, what's the point of SOAP then ? Why can't we use > RMI, or CORBA for language independence ? > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Konstantin Gordiyenko wrote: > > > I've done some tests once. Compared to Sun RMI, SOAP > > serialization/deserialization is 50-200 times slower, requires 5-20 > > (ten) times more memory and produces 5-20 (ten) times larger messages. > > These ratios are mostly depend on the data structure, and almost don't > > depend on the data size. > > > > Ralf Bierig wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > are there any performance measurement materials about > > > SOAP against RMI in Web? Did somebody made a > > > benchmarktest with SOAP (and maybe RMI)? > > > > > > I am looking for material to determine, if SOAP is > > > good enough to fullfil the requirements I need for a > > > project. > > > > > > Greetings > > > Ralf > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > -- > Regards, > Oleg Dulin > http://www.olegdulin.com/
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