Is SOAP a washout?
From: Peter E. C. Dashwood (dashwood_at_enternet.co.nz)
Date: 05/21/04
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Date: 20 May 2004 23:33:16 -0700
Isn't it always the way? You spend a heap of time and energy mastering
something then it becomes obsolete overnight...
(Learned Assembler, along came COBOL; learned ISAM, along came VSAM,
learned VSAM, along came Relational Databases, learned HTML, along
came Dreamweaver...sorry, but I'm sure you catch my drift...)
At least that's what those nice people at MicroSoft would have us
believe.
As from the 1st of July, 2004, MicroSoft are withdrawing support for
SOAP and in the meantime, its use is "deprecated".
(Does that mean someone at MicroSoft goes "Tut, Tut, Mr. Dashwood..."
every time I instantiate a SOAP Client...? I guess it does...)
The theory is that it is obsoleted by .NET.
The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has been a very useful tool
for implementing components that are to be accessed remotely across a
network, on different platforms. (COM+ is very suitable and you don't
need SOAP, if everything is MS on the Network). Of course, the
ultimate idea is to have your components available as Web Services,
and this is exactly what .NET provides, hence, no need for SOAP.
My personal opinion is that no-one has been killed in the rush for
.NET and MS are losing patience...
They asked us nicely to pick it up and hardly anyone did. Component
developers I correspond with are less than enthusiastic that they have
built .NET versions of all their products and demand is slight.
So now MS are saying: "Yes we know it works fine and you are happy
with it, but we have a new product that we really need for you to use.
We are down to our last trillion dollars here..."
Does anyone in CLC have any thoughts or comments about this?
Anyone ecstatic about .NET?
Why?
Is it me?
Pete.
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