From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] RPCs, XML, Schemas, WSDL and SOAP
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:57:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707071457.49979.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183816294.468f9a667d0e8@webmail.in-berlin.de>
On Saturday 07 July 2007 14:51:34 Oliver Bandel wrote:
> Hello Jon,
>
> Zitat von Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>:
> > So I'm just looking into making remote procedure calls across the
> > internet using OCaml. It seems that the people who invented these
> > protocols have made a right pigs ear of it (again). :-)
>
> What does it mean, to make a right pigs ear?
It means they did a very bad job. Richard Jones cited some fun articles
describing the problems, at the bottom of this page:
http://merjis.com/developers/oc-soap
If I had the choice I would certainly choose something more robust like
XML-RPC but, for some unknown reason, the world seems to have ditched all of
the preferable options in favour of the insane ones. Just another case of
industry taking a simple problem and making it incredibly complicated for no
reason. Anyway, I'm going to watch a betamax video whilst listening to some
OGG music. ;-)
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
The OCaml Journal
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_journal/?e
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 16:24 Jon Harrop
2007-07-06 18:57 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-07-07 12:51 ` Benedikt Grundmann
2007-07-09 11:10 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-07-09 11:47 ` Richard Jones
2007-07-07 13:51 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-07-07 13:57 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
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