The Spartan Clarity of SOAP
February 18th, 2009
Joshua Allen: In fact, I wrote my own implementations of most of the important technologies in the early years of the web:
I don’t see a pattern in the technologies he listed. IP, HTTP, and HTML are huge successes. SOAP and XHTML are failures. And remember, Mozilla actually supports XHTML, while Microsoft does not.
I completely agree that HTML5 is too big. The rest of Joshua’s article is severely misguided, I think. Don’t let Microsoft use the spec boogyman to keep the Web underspecified.
February 19th, 2009 at 5:11 am
If you think SOAP has been a failure, you’ve not worked on any enterprise applications. Almost every enterprise I’ve worked at have used SOAP extensively.