WSDL?

[Jorge Vargas]

On 11/4/06, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Jorge Vargas wrote:
> > On 11/4/06, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >>In <mailman.1762.1162647487.11739.python-list at python.org>, 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
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