Approaches of interprocess communication

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Paul Boddie wrote:

> On 16 Feb, 14:16, "Diez B. Roggisch" <d... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>>
>> You can't leave WSDL out of SOAP
> 
> Yes you can, since they're two different things. What you probably
> meant was that you can't leave WSDL out of "big architecture", W3C
> standards-intensive Web services. Of course, RPC-style SOAP without
> the contracts imposed by WSDL may remove some of the attractions for
> some people (who really should consider CORBA, anyway), but then
> there's always document-oriented SOAP, although if you don't want the
> baggage associated with routing and other things, plain XML messaging
> would be easier. And there's always XMPP if you want stuff like
> routing and a standard that isn't undergoing apparently continuous
> change.

Didn't know that. Yet I presume it is pretty awful to manually decompose and
compose the method invocations and parameter sets.

I've got no idea what document-orientied SOAP means either. Is that just
pushing XML-files over a protocol?

Diez