From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0AABC6D for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:06:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l67E6Tah027248 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:06:30 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1I7Asa-0002WV-IZ for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:03:20 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707061724.44910.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1183816294.468f9a667d0e8@webmail.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <1183816294.468f9a667d0e8@webmail.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707071457.49979.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 468F9DE6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; bandel:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 frog:98 wrote:01 oliver:01 caml-list:01 seems:03 seems:03 schemas:04 problem:05 anyway:05 bottom:93 describing:06 preferable:06 On Saturday 07 July 2007 14:51:34 Oliver Bandel wrote: > Hello Jon, > > Zitat von Jon Harrop : > > 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