[Mulgara-dev] Future plans.

Leif Johansson leifj at it.su.se
Sat Oct 7 09:33:11 UTC 2006


>
> Multi-language support:
>  * RMI is Java only, and SOAP's complexity and dependence on a
> relatively complete XML-stack is limiting.
>  * XML/RPC is extremely widely supported in almost every language, and
> requires only minimal xml support in the host language.
>  * REST is very desirable, but doesn't match our existing Session/RPC
> based interface as well.
>  * I would like to do both, but personally my preference is for
> xml/rpc first.
>From my experience with SOAP on perl, ruby, java and python I'd say soap
interoperability isn't an issue. Having
said that REST should probably (imo) be a priority before soap and
before (in turn) xmlrpc. Why? Because in
my experience the people/projects who used to use xmlrpc for its
apparent simplicity is moving towards REST.  In
other words - REST has taken the place of the low-end alternative to SOAP

If you want a few more in the mix I'd say SOAP+MQ and XMPP. The first
since most high-end SOA deployments
is running over SOAP+MQ rather than SOAP+HTTP and XMPP because it is cool.

       Cheers Leif



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