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Introducing SOAP

Issue 83

From Issue #83
March 2001

Mar 01, 2001  By Reuven M. Lerner
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SOAP is something you may find a use for, even if you're not intersted in three-tier web applications.
Conclusion

SOAP heralds the beginning of a new type of distributed Internet application, namely one that can perform remote procedure calls across operating systems and programming languages. No longer does RPC have to be a proprietary, difficult to-understand or difficult-to-invoke process; in the course of an afternoon, you can create a simple distributed application. Just what this means for the future of the Web and the Internet is a good question, but already some are claiming that desktop applications will increasingly be GUI shells that send SOAP requests to centralized servers. Regardless of what the future may bring, the fact that Perl and other free languages can use SOAP means that we will soon be able to communicate more easily than ever. And hey, isn't that the whole point of the Internet?

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Reuven M. Lerner owns and runs a small consulting firm specializing in Web and Internet technologies. He and his wife Shira recently celebrated the birth of their daughter, Atara Margalit. You can reach him at reuven@lerner.co.il or on the ATF home page, http://www.lerner.co.il/atf/.

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