Re: SOAP and BizTalk

For the love of BOB NO!!! :) The last thing we want to do is further push out the standard. CORBA. CORBA was the standard at the time when Microsoft desided to take an attempt on CORBAs life with COM, and it was marginally successfull, but didnt utterly enialate CORBA like MS wished. I consider MS pushing SOAP to be another attempt at taking CORBA's life. This time around, if we're not carefull and we embrace SOAP, CORBA will die, and SOAP will become Microsofts propriatary play thing just like all the other protocols MS has embraced/extended/crushed. If you still want to add SOAP support, thats up to you. But I think helping MS crush CORBA is kind of a Bad Thing (TM). On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Ryan Gaul wrote: > Hold on! Before anyone yells, hear me out. I have seen that some on the list > consider SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/soapspec.asp) a joke, and many of > you may not be familiar with BizTalk, but they are based on Userland's XML-RPC > spec (http://www.xmlrpc.org). While the standard is from Microsoft (whom i am > personally anti), and Dave Winer (who is a egotist jackass extraordinaire), it > makes a lot of sense, and is going to be fairly widely supported (I believe the > folks at Digital Creations are going to do so). > > Now, I am looking to produce a reference implementation of SOAP in PHP. > If someone else is working on this, I'd be glad to help. Otherwise I will do > it myself. In addition, I plan to add BizTalk functionality as well. This will > allow interaction between PHP applications (like the one I'm building for a > customer) to interact with non-php applications and services (like Windows DNA, > and Microsoft's BizTalk server, VB, Perl, Java) in a simple, but non-trivial > way using XML. > > Now, my question is just this, anyone working on this? Is anyone interested in > this? > > Ryan Gaul > > -- > Marge: We can't afford to buy a pony. > > Homer: Marge, with today's gasoline prices, we can't afford not to > buy a pony. > > Lisa's Pony > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >