Python XML SIG <xml-sig@python.org>
What's good about SOAP? (2146)
Handles statically typed languages (2150)
Can resolve identity decodings (2156)
Not adequately (2167)
Don Box and Andrew Layman were designers (2181)
Why is this a good thing? (2187)
Shipping pointer-based objects in C/C++ (2199)
Supports intermediates (2206)
So does HTTP, SMTP (w/ extensions) and BEEP (w/o extensions) (2446)
Valid? (2578)
BEEP solves a different problem (2583)
BEEP for rich message payloads is all that's needed (2669)
CID scheme (2210)
Not a good thing (2455)
Ability to send XML (2213)
Anything can send XML (2464)
SOAP method is lexically brittle (2471)
Valid? (2599)
SOAP can transport arbitrary XML (2604)
SOAP provides messaging infrastructure for existing XML apps (3334)
Valid? (3357)
Lots of details you have to worry about (3362)
Richer data types (2216)
CORBA also has rich datatypes (2483)
Valid? (2614)
CORBA doesn't support pointers (2619)
SOAP doesn't support pointers either (2691)
How would IIOP serialize a doubly linked list? (2732)
An array (2837)
Martin's code excerpt (2854)
Doubly-linked list is just a vector (3257)
Marshaling pointers could lead to problems (3262)
Valid? (3271)
Type-safe in CORBA (3278)
Better than SOAP multi-reference approach (3286)
href/id handles pointer aliasing (2219)
Only if you're delivering the entire object anyway (2492)
Internal pointers less useful than pointer from message back into data store (2790)
Ability to transmit pointer-using data types (2806)
Alternatives? (2816)
Send RDF for complex graphs (2823)
Transmit CORBA adjacency table (2827)
Supported in CORBA since v2.3 (July 1999) (2845)
SOAP RPC encoding rich enough to serialize DCE, DCOM, CORBA, etc. (3293)
Where do you use pointer feature in a business app? (2753)
Why should this be at the protocol rather than application layer? (2777)
hrefs allow refs to network data (2230)
UDDI puts network data behind RPC interfaces that cannot be referenced (2312)
Can do this with other mechanisms (2504)
Valid? (2627)
What's possible and what exists are two different things (2632)
Example? (2698)
Extensible architecture (2233)
Extensions can have hierarchical structure (2511)
Reasonable size to implement (2236)
Spec is much bigger than XML-RPC (2262)
Implementations prove otherwise (2524)
Valid? (2641)
DCE implementation much bigger (2646)
Major vendors have agreed to use it (2384)
Microsoft and everyone else finally agreed on something (2392)
Closed world architecture won't work on the Internet (2399)