RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

Sorry,

RPG is not suited for the small stuf.
RPG is suited for all the stuff.
Let just use one language and point of entry for XML
communication(RPG).
There are no reasons to use anything else.
Everyone that things that XML is HipHop forgets that it is only a
clumsy way of being able to communicate Relational Data in an
sequential way. It is clumsy, cost an awfull lot of recources to create
and parse and makes the data to be send at least 10 times larger.
It remind you of those days when the only storage was the tape.

Kind regards,
Eduard Sluis.

--- jt <jt@xxxxxx> wrote:
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> | [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron
> L.
> | (TC)
> | Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:17 PM
> | To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> | Subject: RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer
> |
> 
> | But that sort of ignores a larger point: if I just want to send a
> simple
> | text message to a service and get a message in response, and web
> | services are so complicated that I can't do that easily in RPG,
> then web
> | services are too complicated.  There needs to be a simpler
> interface for
> | people who don't need all the bells and whistles of SOAP.
> 
> 
> 
> | I would
> | rather just have
> | one language and point of entry doing my XML communication.
> 
> My preference, also.  Anybody that thinks RPG is best-suited to doing
> the
> small stuff, imo, is incorrect and probably has it backwards.
> 
> Perhaps this is a more-or-less (I dunno) suitable alternative to SOAP
> for
> RPG:  http://www.xmlrpc.com/
> 
> Btw, for the folks that think XML is the be-all and end-all, here are
> two
> sides from Tim Bray the (primary?) author of XML:
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/XMLisOK
> 
> Yeah, XML is cool and hip tho!!
> 
> 
> 
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