I think a lot of it is ease of creation and maintenance. The soap server
takes care of all the XML processing, all you deal with is normal Java data
types. You get to write normal Java classes deploy them in the server. You
don't need to write a multitide of servlets, each with XML parsing, to
handle each service request type.
Rick Hansen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cotton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SOAP Messaging vs. POSTing xml
>
>
>
> I've been trying to understand how to incorporate SOAP into our
> architecture. I can see many benefits to using SOAP RPC as a platform
> neutral RPC mechanism.
>
> But we have some use cases that are just an upload of xml data. Batch
> processing with an xml return of the status of the batch.
>
> What are the advantages of using SOAP messaging instead of a simple
> POST of xml to a servlet?
>
> Thanks
> - Bob
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