Re: [DotGNU]Propoganda starts at home...

[Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)]

Very good summary

Mason Ham wrote:
> 
> Here are my two cents on difference between SOAP and XML-RPC:
> 1) SOAP attempts to take XML-RPC to the next level by using the XML Scheme
> to have more "complex" types than the XML-RPC spec. lets.
> 2) SOAP tries and solve the namespacing issues with XML-RPC by using
> XML-Namespaces.
> 3) SOAP try's to lay the ground work for the Security of objects ... it will
> in the future have things like Authentication in it. The same is true for
> both protocols though. They actually use the same mechanisms to achieve it
> today ... ie you had pointer in the headers.
> 4) SOAP is way more difficult for people to learn. That is simply cause you
> have to understand all the different types of XML protocols to use it.
> XML-RPC is pretty simple to learn. Understand HTTP (both need this),
> Understand the XML-RPC types (int,string,float,binary, boolean,
> array,struct) and that is pretty much it. The rest is old coding. to be
> explicit: