Abstract: SOAP-RPC and WSDL in the Web Service domain are analogous to IIOP and IDL in CORBA, while the document mode of SOAP is comparable to EDI. As such, SOAP does not enable new applications to be built because of its principles, but because of its acceptance. Where CORBA failed to gain mind-share through reasons ranging from varying vendor support to platform complexity, SOAP has succeeded by virtue of a simple standard adopted by a range of vendors. A key driver for the future adoption of Web Services, is the possibility to wrap legacy systems with a standard wrapper for use by a wide range of applications. It is in this arena that Java represents the best platform for Web Services as it has the support of the infrastructure vendors:
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-04-12
Language: en
Type: article
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