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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:]
>
> The "fuss" is mainly about the fact that the web services
> hype is in such overdrive that SOAP is being used for things
> it is utterly (and
> obviously!) unsuited for ... and in my opinion it is quite
> hard to find things it is well suited for. It's similar to
> the fuss about the side-swinging patent. It is a sign of the
> times.
Like I said elsewhere in this thread: groupthink.
> It's a little more than device transformation -- you're
> accepting different *inputs*.
True.
> But certainly there is no
> rocket science in supporting them both. Really, there is no
> rocket science in the API at all. They had 95% of it working
> a year ago using pure XML and HTTP and there was no big hype
> about it because it wasn't officially supported technology.
Wow. I see they dropped /xml? except for partners, I must have been
hibernating...
Bill de hÓra
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