RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

As I posted before, (and I didn't see any corrections,) Dave Winer
co-authored both XML-RPC and SOAP.

Joe, for the reasons you posted below (although not an RPGer) he prefers
XML-RPC, at this time, and has stated he is NOT going to do WSDL, for this
same reason.  This is my hang-up with the ENTIRE "web services" meme-crap.
When I see folks, THE most skilled folks I know of, like you and Dave Winer
saying IT does NOT *NEED* TO BE *THAT* COMPLICATED, then I suspect the
design trade-offs were done "by committee" rather than by applied research
into what works best.

jmho

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
| Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:42 AM

| 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.