[XML-SIG] WSDL library ?

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
14 Feb 2002 09:36:54 +0100


Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

> > BTW, IIOP is an unfair target.  Should I attack SOAP 0.9?
> > 
> > What do you think about GIOP, then?
> 
> I thought IIOP was the binding of GIOP for the Internet. It would seem
> to be more analogous to SOAP than GIOP which is not "general".

All true. And even though GIOP (and thus IIOP) has its subtleties, I
don't think it is correct to call it a "crappy protocol". It is very
easy to implement, quite well specified (the message format is defined
in IDL itself), and, compared to any XML RPC scheme, super-efficient.

Regards,
Martin