RE: [PHP-DEV] SOAP and BizTalk

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Kocks wrote: > > 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, EJB is CORBA based last I heard. :) > the perference seems to be for Java only solutions. Whenever you have Ok. as to performance, I gota address this. IIOP sends things (I think) as binary across the line. SOAP sends them as XML (strings of uncompressed text), so I would think that SOAP would be slower then CORBA. > 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 CORBA isnt dependent on one protocol. you can implement a http based one or even an soap based one, so I say its more flexable in that regard. > firewall because (a) it requires no firewall reconfiguration (b) MS is > pushing it like crazy. Thats what scares me. A protocol that you can NOT stop from going over a firewall. Does that scare the crap out of anyone else? Why do you think MS is pushing such a protocol so hard? > > 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. It will only be widely used if we as developers support it. > > My 2 cents. > > --pk > > >