Status of SOAP and Python.

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

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Hello Martin,

Monday, October 08, 2001, 1:43:02 PM, you wrote:
>> Enough of the rambling I guess. How do others see where SOAP is
>> going in relation to Python? Do people still think SOAP is the
>> best thing since sliced bread, or are people starting to realise
>> it is pretty crappy after all?
> I certainly hope that SOAP is going to disappear rather sooner than
>  

Considering that .NET is based on SOAP, this is rather unlikely to
happen. Now if .NET would disappear too...

> later, and that people who care about distributed systems come back
> to well-defined interfaces, and efficient marshalling.

So what do you recommend to use instead of SOAP? XML-RPC? Classic RPC
(*uaah*)?



Best regards,
 Gabriel
 Maxû¿œD

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