xml-dev - RE: SOAP serialization

[Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>]

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2033523.html?tag=st
but agreed, the info is not very clear on just what
is meant by "support".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Orchard [mailto:orchard@pacificspirit.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:40 PM
> To: haustein@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de; 'Sasha Nakhimovsky'
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: SOAP serialization
> 
> 
> Really?  I'd like to see where Sun announced that they 
> supported SOAP.  I'd
> further like to see what "support" means in the context of Sun and
> particularly Java.  Java already "supports" SOAP because you 
> can create SOAP
> messages using Java and Sun's parsers.
> 
> Does support mean automatic invocation of java services through a SOAP
> server?  A Servlet implementation of a SOAP server?  A SOAP 
> client that will
> marshall soap requests onto HTTP?  Automatic generation of 
> SOAP documents
> from Java objects?  An extension of JSR #31 for SOAP - JSR 
> #SOAP ?-) Binding
> of SOAP requests to JMS queues?  An EJB Session 
> implementation of a SOAP
> container?  Authoring tools?  A SOAP XML Schema?  A SOAP 
> server programming
> model?
> 
> I wonder what support means.   Be careful when you claim that 
> a company
> supports something.
> 
> Just a curious guy,
> Dave Orchard
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: haustein@kiew.cs.uni-dortmund.de
> [mailto:haustein@kiew.cs.uni-dortmund.de]On Behalf Of Stefan Haustein
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:19 AM
> To: Sasha Nakhimovsky
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: SOAP serialization
> 
> 
> Sasha Nakhimovsky wrote:
> >
> > Can SOAP serialize an arbitrary Java object without loss of 
> data?  What
> are
> > the constraints, if any?  A study of Section Five would of 
> course yield
> the
> > answer, but I'm hoping that it already exists in a 
> pre-packaged form.
> 
> I do not see any reason why it should not. And SUN has already
> announced to support SOAP....
> 
> Best,
> 
> Stefan
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