Darren New wrote:
> It's simple in the sense that you connect from your computer to the
> server, exchange a message, and drop the connection. CORBA gives you
> things like
> directories, proxies, data conversion servers, etc etc etc.  So SOAP gets
> the message there and back. CORBA in addition tells you where the message
> is
>   supposed to go, whether someone's server is working, what message you're
> allowed to send next, and stuff like that.
> 

It's still a huge complex mess compared to, say, XMLRPC. Or even a
completely custom REST API, at least you don't absolutely need a library to
use it (while implementing SOAP from scratch is a huge pain).

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