29.08.2002

API for SOAP

I currently ask myself: "Why do you need client libraries to make SOAP calls?" - Generating the message can simply be done by string concatenation and parsing the response can be done with a very simple parser with very little code. This results in very compact and fast code - ok, who wants to maintain code anyway? And who has defined this WSDL ? Now, it's a little bit funny. One of the basics of XML is the humanreadable text format. And now look at WSDL which is XML. Is this humanreadable? So it can't be XML... 1:17:42 PM