Re: issue: SOAP requirements

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>:

> On Mar 16, 2005, at 8:52 PM, James M Snell wrote:
>
> > Better question: why bother with SOAP at all?  Either make the Atom
> > API a SOAP based thing or don't.  I vote for getting rid of the SOAP
> > option altogether unless someone can step up and give a solid defense
> > for why it is absolutely necessary to be able to support such a thing.
>
> Last time I checked, it was the only way to enable basic Java phones to
> talk Atom, since they don't support PUT/DELETE and the WG seems
> determined that the use of all four REST verbs is a big win. -Tim

I agree with Tim, my concerns with the spec are editorial, not with the
capability itself. It's not hard for servers to do both. Secondly, SOAP is way
more popular than the blogosphere echo chamber would have you believe, and the
SOAP capability will make it easier to hook that stuff in.

Robert Sayre