19 Jun
2006
19 Jun
'06
7:19 p.m.
That's because SOAP and company suck. There is always, always, *always* a better way to accomplish a task than using SOAP. I've ranted about this topic before in another thread, to no avail, and I doubt I'll change your mind either, but someone needs to speak out against this nonsense.
Curious, what would you use if you needed a general remote programming interface built using python, where you can simply upload new python codelets, that should be accessible not just from python but from any major Windows and Unix PL, where you need complex types, and where you wouldn't know what kind of tasks you'll be solving with it in a couple of years. Corba? XML-RPC?