Comments on: Wondering Just What SOAP Is For…. http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2007%2F03%2F02%2Fwondering-just-what-soap-is-for%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Wondering+Just+What+SOAP+Is+For%26%238230%3B. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Creswell http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2007%2F03%2F02%2Fwondering-just-what-soap-is-for%2F%23comment-51&seed_title=Wondering+Just+What+SOAP+Is+For%26%238230%3B./comment-page-1/#comment-51 Dan Creswell Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:04:38 +0000 http://www.dancres.org/blitzblog/2007/03/02/wondering-just-what-soap-is-for/#comment-51 Hi Eric, I'm not really about dragging out all the bits about RPC and claiming SOAP is therefore RPC. I am suggesting that maybe the spec is structured/worded in such a fashion that it leads people to see things one particular way and that maybe someone needs to write up some overview to address these polarized thoughts. If that's not done, we'll continue to see the kind of confusion that is evident amongst the community. Hi Eric,

I’m not really about dragging out all the bits about RPC and claiming SOAP is therefore RPC.

I am suggesting that maybe the spec is structured/worded in such a fashion that it leads people to see things one particular way and that maybe someone needs to write up some overview to address these polarized thoughts.

If that’s not done, we’ll continue to see the kind of confusion that is evident amongst the community.

]]> By: Eric Newcomer http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2007%2F03%2F02%2Fwondering-just-what-soap-is-for%2F%23comment-50&seed_title=Wondering+Just+What+SOAP+Is+For%26%238230%3B./comment-page-1/#comment-50 Eric Newcomer Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:32:04 +0000 http://www.dancres.org/blitzblog/2007/03/02/wondering-just-what-soap-is-for/#comment-50 Sure, you can extract all the quotes about RPC and say that the SOAP spec was all about RPC, but that's not really the case. See if you can place this quote: "I note that an RPC message is a special case of a structured document." That was the intent of the SOAP spec. I think it can be fairly argued that the implementations have tended to ignore the non RPC parts of the spec, i.e. the document-oriented SOAP style, but the spec is actually even handed in its treatment of the two paradigms. Sure, you can extract all the quotes about RPC and say that the SOAP spec was all about RPC, but that’s not really the case.

See if you can place this quote: “I note that an RPC message is a special case of a structured document.”

That was the intent of the SOAP spec. I think it can be fairly argued that the implementations have tended to ignore the non RPC parts of the spec, i.e. the document-oriented SOAP style, but the spec is actually even handed in its treatment of the two paradigms.

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