WSDL?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1162690242.646530.23220 at h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
soring at gmail.com wrote:

> CORBA may work fine in an intranet environment, where you can control
> the server and the client, but it clearly failed to be a popular choice
> on the internet: have you seen any company offering webservices with a
> CORBA interface??

The OP wanted something for in-house communication between programs.  You
are right that CORBA is not a popular choice for offering "webservices"
for the masses but there used to be companies that offered CORBA
interfaces in the "business to business" arena when the word "webservice"
was yet to be invented.

A huge part of the SOAP popularity comes from marketing and shoving down
the buzzwords "webservices" and "XML" down everyone's throat and has
nothing to do with technical advantages or disadvantages.  Well, IMHO at
least.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch