[XML-SIG] SOAP, Web services, hype, and Python

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. L=F6wis wrote:
> Michael McLay <mmclay@comcast.net> writes:
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>>Am I being stubborn and they are correct, or is this stuff really
>>broken and difficult to work with?
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> I think so, yes (more precisely: not broken, just ill-designed). It is
> so complex that it ain't no fun. Whenever I need RPC, I use CORBA.
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>>Are web services considered a dead end in the Python community?
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> I can't speak for the community in general, but I'll observe that
> people seem to contribute only things that they need in their own
> projects. So from the lack of contributions, I'd conclude that nobody
> really *needs* web services.

I'll have to object to that. Web services are in wide spread
use and the base is getting larger.

I agree that getting everything to work isn't easy, which is one of the
reasons why Tim Couper and I have developed the Siena Web Services
Architecture (http://www.siena-tech.com/) -- it basically does away
with all the complicated stuff and lets programmers think about the
services themselves rather than all the logistics that go between the
using application and the server.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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