Re: [xml-dev] What does SOAP really add?

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2002-04-22T20:53:53Z
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Re: [xml-dev] What does SOAP really add?
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:11, Dave Winer wrote:
> All that matters to me is if it worked, and it clearly did. There were apps
> written in most major programming environments that connected to Google
> through the SOAP API within a matter of hours. No one reported any interop
> glitches. Could they have done it another way? Of course. So what. Dave

To me, the matter of hours suggests we're looking at a trivial test
case, which doesn't prove anything either way.

The web services train is traveling to a more complicated world than
this -- money needs to be made, after all -- something REST and SOAP
both need to take into account.

-- Edd