Jake says the nature of dynamically-typed programming environments makes WSDL difficult, if not impossible, to support in those environments.  Why?  I see this often stated, but without any supporting evidence provided.  WSDL FM and WSDL BDG both would seem to be concrete counterexamples to this statement.

What am I missing?

  2:02:03 PM    

Matthew Lanham: Sam provides us with a very local path here. Proving that I am not as stupid as Carsten pointed out on Friday when I linked this story to my local copy.  Nope.  Just proves that we both are stupid at times.

Fixed.

  6:55:46 AM    

Yikes! Bruce Schneier, Cryptogram Newsletter: "Implementation of Microsoft SOAP, a protocol running over HTTP precisely so it could bypass firewalls, should be withdrawn.". You gotta be kidding me. Wonder how the rest of the SOAP community feels about this? [Peter Drayton]

Microsoft SOAP?  Chosing to refer to the W3C Note in those terms speaks volumes about the author's intent.

I tend to run SOAP on port 5049.  Those digits look kinda like the letters SOAP to me.  Depending on your security requirements, you are free to run SOAP on any port you like.

  6:46:58 AM