From: Jim Whitehead (ejw@ics.uci.edu)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 15:00:52 PDT
> What I don't understand is why people think SOAP is so important.
> Performance characteristics suck for anything other than heavyweight
> calls.
The big win of SOAP is that it is relatively easy to write a SOAP stack
using JavaScript. That is, using SOAP you can have programs within the Web
browser executing RPCs on remote Web servers. This then allows the browser
to interact with interesting services.
- Jim
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