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Philosophical Split Hurts Web Services Adoption

Posted by timothy on from the so-many-to-choose-from dept.

Avidwriter writes "'There is a serious split in Web services implementation philosophy that is threatening to stall the benefits of the technology to businesses and consumers,' says this Devchannel story. 'The WSDL 1.1 specification allows programmers to choose between remote procedure call (RPC) style and document-style Web services. The decision is not an arbitrary one, as it has ramifications for both message structure and more importantly the interoperability of Web services...'"

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  1. Re:Little summary and comment by LarryRiedel · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the author may be expressing, among other things, an idea like that it may be cleaner to implement an RPC style interaction model on top of a Document style interaction model than vice versa, to define a protocol in terms of message formats than in terms of an API, to implement a blocking API on top of a non-blocking API than vice versa. Not a statement of fact so much as rejecting a choice between A or B in favor of thinking about what will be the best way to get A and B.

    Larry