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   From: cr88192@hotmail.com   
      
   "Le Chaud Lapin"  wrote in message   
   news:69b0410a-adf3-4c78-8142-4f2b45f7e673@b15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...   
   On Aug 25, 3:25 pm, "BGB / cr88192"  wrote:   
   > "Joe Pfeiffer"  wrote in message   
   [snip]   
   > we all know that all other options are meaningless when compared against   
   > the   
   > incredible greatness of SOAP...   
   >   
   > after all, SOAP is the one true protocol and is necessarily implemented,   
   > even if it just so happens that both ends are incompatible due to being   
   > implemented using different versions of the schema, this is merely an   
   > "implementation detail" (in much the same way as that it is such low-level   
   > details that software runs on computers, or that humans need food and air   
   > to   
   > survive...).   
   >   
   > (and in a condescending voice) the truely intellectual would not concern   
   > themselves with such low-level details, and instead focus on the "bigger   
   > picture", a world where software is not constrained to running on   
   > computers,   
   > and humans can propel themselves into space and explore alien worlds via   
   > little more than the immense powers of their own flatulence...   
   >   
   > nevermind the ignorant masses and all their naysayers...   
   >   
   > ok, not really, just a sort of an unrelated semi-rant in the above...   
   >   
   > but, yes, how one will design a protocol, ... will depend highly on the   
   > type   
   > of system being implemented, operating requirements, ...   
   >   
   > so, it is not so much about any one-true-strategy, but the careful   
   > consideration and weighting of the various factors involved (much as in   
   > many   
   > complex systems). and, often, it may well make sense to allow the use of   
   > multiple "competing" possibilities, serving as such to allow some level of   
   > experimentation and weeding out options which do not work as well as   
   > ideal.   
   >   
   > so, rather than pursue the ideal of genericness, one can pursue the ideal   
   > of   
   > openness...   
      
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