Darren New wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Yes, but you only implement SOAP from scratch once. Then you feed WSDL
> into your codebase and viola.
> 
> I'll take WSDL over an implement-each-interface-manually any day.

Doesn't mean it's not complex, just that the complexity is in a library.

And the pain was from when I tried to access a SOAP service to get weather
forecasts, from an environment without any SOAP library. Heck, the XML
parser didn't even understand namespaces, I had to add that feature myself
on top (parsing xmlns attributes etc).

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