Re: [xml-dev] Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented vs

[Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>]

> Advantages:
> 
> 1) The same action/data message can be used for each transport protocol
> (HTTP, SMTP, FTP, etc).

s/transport/transfer

Also, a big advantage;

- provides the opportunity to generalize "actions" so that they can be
reused between data messages.  optimizations can then be performed on
these general actions (which is what the HTTP method set is)

MB
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