RE: [PHP-DEV] SOAP and BizTalk

I for one think SOAP support would be great. I like CORBA, but I believe its death is emminent. Within corporations there is lots of movement to Java/EJB/RMI based solutions and altough Java and CORBA can work together, the perference seems to be for Java only solutions. Whenever you have something that needs to cross the firewall, then CORBA fails because its too hard to get different businesses to agree on using firewall bridges for CORBA. XML will be the mechanism by which data is exchanged over the firewall because (a) it requires no firewall reconfiguration (b) MS is pushing it like crazy. Although I have no doubt that SOAP will never be as eligent or as well designed as CORBA, I believe it will be very widely used. Of course, I think HTML (http) is not really eligent or efficient either and of course it is VERY widely used. My 2 cents. --pk