Lots of people still use rpc/encoded. Most of the scripting languages don't support doc/literal very well.
When SOAP 1.1 was first published (April 2000), XML Schema was not yet a final spec, so the SOAP spec authors had to define their own typing system -- SOAP encoding. Also, initially, the spec authors were trying to build an RPC system. I know that Don Box deeply regrets inventing SOAP encoding, but such is life. Anne On 5/12/05, Sagar Pidaparthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know that the world is moving towards Document style. However, does > anybody have any idea of what percentage of web services currently > available are in each style? (Any informed guesses would be fine) > > Is there any use of for RPC at all given this general trend towards Doc > Literal? > > What was the point of developing RPC as default style, if it was never > interoperable? (I know that this is going too far!) > > How were popular services like Amazon or Google implemented? > > Regards > > Sagar >
