Re: [SOAP] web services
| From: | Bill Kearney | Date: | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:23:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [SOAP] web services | ||
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Unless, of course, you need real text encoding.
XML-RPC *only* supports USASCII. No unicode, not even ISO-8859-1. And it's
spec author actively fights /against/ improving this situation.
-Bill Kearney
"Tony Bibbs" <tony@tonybibbs.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0303201612030.15822-100000@internal.iowaoutdoors.org...
> That seems network intensive to me. Offering web services for some basic
> tasks makes sense but not making an entire application that does all
> functionality over the web will be slow and impractical.
>
> Also, consider XML-RPC. Some people insist on hammering a nail with a
> sledgehammer (soap) when a XML-RPC implementation (the hammer) is better
> suited.
>
> That said, I use both raw XML, XML-RPC and SOAP for various tasks.
>
> It doesn't have to be all or the other (not that you implied that)...