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Exploring Apache's SOAP Serialization APIs

Irish writes "This IBM developerWorks article discusses the theoretical underpinnings of SOAP's type system. Its a good article for anyone who wants to learn more about SOAP's programmatic support or to simply better understand Apache's SOAP."

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  1. Bruce Schneier has said: by Gis_Sat_Hack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Implementation of Microsoft SOAP, a protocol running over HTTP precisely so it could bypass firewalls, should be withdrawn. According to the Microsoft documentation: "Since SOAP relies on HTTP as the transport mechanism, and most firewalls allow HTTP to pass through, you'll have no problem invoking SOAP endpoints from either side of a firewall." It is exactly this feature-above-security mindset that needs to go. It may be that SOAP offers sufficient security mechanisms, proper separation of code and data. However, Microsoft promotes it for its security avoidance.

    source:
    http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram- 0202.html

  2. Redundant Post xml-rpc is by far better by codepunk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SOAP is nothing more than a poorly designed and implemented version of xml-rpc. Try getting two soap services talking together one time. Interop does not exist in the SOAP world. Take a look at xml-rpc for some lib's that work (without the hype).

    Let's see 2 page spec vs 200, come on people wake up!

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