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Tyson Dowd trd@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:13:02 +1100


On 29-Dec-2000, David Merrill <dmerrill@lupercalia.net> wrote:
> I spent last night reading the w3c's SOAP 1.1 spec. Ugh. (Not an
> editorial comment, just that reading specs is not my most favorite
> thing to do with my evenings.)

Yah, I had to read it a while ago.  I still find it dry and boring.
If you find any article Don Box has written about SOAP I recommend it,
much more interesting and explains the *why*.  Although some of them are
a bit outdated.

> It doesn't really do events, except in the sense that HTTP1.1 does.

Not in any builtin way.  

There's a paper on how to do it here:

http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/soap/events/report.html

Nothing complicated though. 

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