Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Doesn't mean it's not complex, just that the complexity is in a library.

Sure. But that's where it belongs. You're supposed to encapsulate complexity 
in a library. Once that's done once, using SOAP is completely trivial 
(unless your SOAP tracks changes and your library doesn't handle the cookies 
for you, but that's just bad design).

> And the pain was from when I tried to access a SOAP service to get weather
> forecasts, from an environment without any SOAP library. 

Sure. Without a SOAP library, it's more complex than doing a one-off. With 
the library, it's way easier than doing a one-off. Having done both, I'll 
take using the library, Bob.

It was pretty annoying to do SOAP calls to the broken library the data 
provider was using, that didn't do SOAP right, too. (Of course, they 
couldn't even get base64 working, either, and that's like 5 lines in C.)

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