Russel Butek wrote: > >> Ulimately, I believe that people will move to a WSDL first methodology. >> Given this, I believe that the fiction of a 1-to-1 and onto mapping will >> ultimately break down. > > I disagree. We thought the same thing about IDL, but it didn't happen. In > the Java world folks will write EJBs. They won't care about the transport > protocol. So roundtripping will continue to be an issue.
You may be right. My feelings, for what it is worth, is based on two observations: 1) if you control both ends of the wire, there are better protocols than SOAP. 2) in the case where there are multiple implementations of given SOAP interface, there can be at most one "first" implementation. All the rest will try to map the wire protocol onto their infrastructure. - Sam Ruby
