The average user just doesn't care what technology underpins their site/blog - we are now in an age where the technology is becoming less relevant. I had a small rant about it here: {Link} We are moving into a commodity age and will compete more on price.
On web services:
I think SOAP is better than XML-RPC beacuse the SOAP format (eg XML package) is consistent. With XML-RPC the server side has to know exactly how to interpret that chunk of XML. The bad thing about SOAP is that it is VERY complex (essentially .NET is a SOAP enabled everything). SOAP is still very much in its infancy and the industry leaders are still squabbling about standards and royalties. I think it will be a few years before the whole web services thiing really takes off.
The average user just doesn't care what technology underpins their site/blog - we are now in an age where the technology is becoming less relevant. I had a small rant about it here: {Link} We are moving into a commodity age and will compete more on price.
On web services:
I think SOAP is better than XML-RPC beacuse the SOAP format (eg XML package) is consistent. With XML-RPC the server side has to know exactly how to interpret that chunk of XML. The bad thing about SOAP is that it is VERY complex (essentially .NET is a SOAP enabled everything). SOAP is still very much in its infancy and the industry leaders are still squabbling about standards and royalties. I think it will be a few years before the whole web services thiing really takes off.
Brendon
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