RE: [PHP] New buzz SOAP?

Java rocks. Personally I'm not a fan of MS. However, I saw a sneak preview of .NET in action last July and was astonished by the possible potential for this. There are many aspects of .NET, SOAP being just one of them. I saw code being written in a single GUI development environment where VB called C# called COBOL(??!? I'm serious here). The code was debugged in a single debugger and jumped seamlessly from line to line across different languages. Calling a function/method in a different language was as simple as scrolling through MS's intellisense dropdowns, you don't even need to know what language the relevant function is written in. ASP has been converted to run with the .NET common language runtime(CLR), meaning that you can write ASP in any language compatible with the CLR (i.e. VB, C#, COBOL, umpteen other languages currently being converted). Most cool was the way in which you can create web services. This is where SOAP comes into play. By tagging a function in a CLR compatible language with a 'web service' tag the function becomes exposed and available across the net to anyone else using SOAP development environments (admittedly only .NET at the moment). There were many, many oohs and aahs at the conference, from my position they were well deserved. I'm not a fan of MS but don't write them off. As a developer I haven't such a potential for a revolution since Windows 2.0 first came out. -----Original Message----- From: David VanHorn [mailto:dvanhorn@cedar.net] Sent: 03 April 2001 17:59 To: Neil Kimber; Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay"; 'Stewart Taylor'; 'Brandon Orther'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] New buzz SOAP? > >This is going to be big because it is a very large part of the new Microsoft >.NET strategy. In essence it will enable everyone and everything to talk >together without worrying about hardware, software or OS's incompatibilities >(well, that's the theory, anyway). Of course, I'm sure that MS will make >their own non-open extensions and tie everyone into their World<grin>. I can't count the number of times I've heard this promise.. Anyone remember how Java was supposed to take over the world? >The best thing about SOAP is the sense of humour of the designers. Part of >the SOAP toolkit is called the Remote Object Proxy Engine, this is >responsible for the consumption of dispatching of SOAP messages. So, you get >SOAP on a ROPE! Don't drop the SOAP! :) -- Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org Where's dave? http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?kc6ete-9 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net