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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:37:38 -0800
From: Red Pineseed <yue207@home.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Heterogenous networks
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SOAP is based on XML-RPC while it corrected some of the
XML-RPC limitations. Both SOAP and XML-RPC use HTTP
protocols to exchanges XML packets through procedure calls,
which is different form CORBA and RMI.


Philip


Adam Lang wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the off topic post, but this is just to finish up a comment about
> XML I made earlier.
> 
> Biztalk is the MS implementation, but SOAP is the protocol that wraps XML
> around the data.  Here is a quote:
> 
> Abstract
> SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a
> decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that
> consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing
> what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for
> expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for
> representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be
> used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only
> bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in combination
> with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
> 
> It is not an MS technology.
> 
> But in regards to someone else's comment earlier, makes the idea of
> postgresql support for XML interesting.
> 
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company