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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:14:55PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> 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.
Exactly! How useful is that, if you don't know what they do?
Your only choices at this point are;
1. have a built-in expectation of what methods you'll see
2. use a pre-specified set of generic methods
The problem with #1 is that it makes communication impossible without
previous coordination. This is why RPC can be made to work intra-
corporation (because systems are under the same administrator[1]), but
not so well inter-corporation.
#2 works well on the Internet, as the success of application protocols
like NNTP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP demonstrates.
[1] http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Fallacies.html (#6)
MB
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