I am trying to write my license paper on WEB Services and SOAP (in particular). And I am interested also in presenting the AXIS and SOAP tools from Apache.
But for begining, it will be very interesting to listen to your ideas about why SOAP is better (or not) than other RPC stuff? And when should be picked up as a reliable transport layer for an application (in what particular circumstances), and when not... My own oppinion: SOAP is great because it starts to spread very fast... and is even used by .NET platform. Even interop is sometimes a problem, this seems to be a very good tool for crossplatform communication and stuff like this. Is very easy to develop soap services, and is very easy to see the data that is send... And I might have alot of PROs for soap... but none of them comes right now in my mind. :o))) It will be great to hear from you (on axis-user), because is not enough just reading the books or the axis site... Tx dovle
