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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
>
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:15:39PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> > There's simple, though non-obvious reasons why the common
> use of SOAP
> > will never see this type of growth. Primarily, it's because the a
> > priori contract that is present between a SOAP sender and a SOAP
> > receiver is insufficient to generate any network effects. HTTP
> > provides a much richer contract. And for that matter, so does FTP,
> > SMTP, and every other application protocol in existence.
> > >>
> >
> > Can you substantiate that claim?
>
> Sure. HTTP, and every other application protocol, have
> methods.
You mean shared methods. A SOAP setup will have at least one method, and
I can find out their signatures I just don't know what they do
behavourially.
Bill de hÓra
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