Five years ago CORBA was supposed to be the panacea for x-platform network data transfer; 3 years ago it was RMI; 2 years ago it was XML; and for the past year all we've been hearing about is SOAP. XML has become the configuration file standard, but as for data transport over the Net? HTTP is alive and well and I don't see that changing much very soon. I believe this is a perfect example of Alan Cooper's observation in "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" whereby developers are using technologies because they're "cool," and not because they are appropriate. I adhere to the KISS principle.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: ^BoyInterrupted^ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Servlets + Swing > Or, if you're a glutton for over-complexified (but buzzword > compliant) punishment: SOAP. (google for it). Both SOAP and > XML-RPC have implementations that work through servlets. It's simply how you predict the applicability of your solution. If you feel that your application has the capability to grow to something really big , traversing different implementations, SOAP would be THE way to go. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
