Comment interesting related work: REST (Score 1) 603
There's some interesting related work here on REST (Representational State Transfer):
http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi
This is an architectural style for building web services, etc. that may be more appropriate for HTTP than how XML-RPC and SOAP are typically used. If I understand it, the claim is not that XML-RPC and SOAP are fundamentally flawed, but that they are often used in a way that doesn't take full advantage of the power of HTTP.
http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi
This is an architectural style for building web services, etc. that may be more appropriate for HTTP than how XML-RPC and SOAP are typically used. If I understand it, the claim is not that XML-RPC and SOAP are fundamentally flawed, but that they are often used in a way that doesn't take full advantage of the power of HTTP.
