Author: SOAP is simple

By Fu Srinagar soap XML is to simplify the message and the resulting integration is accelerating business applications, according to Scott seely, the author of a book on the Simple Object Access Protocol, soap: cross-platform Web Service Development Using XML, ptr Published by Prentice Hall, Saddle River, New Jersey.

Simple, one of the main advantages of soap, developers can learn and in a couple of days, seely argued, and more complex standards such as CORBA, and can spend a few weeks time grasp. Short learning curve and simplicity, leading to the deployment of more and more developers soap, cross-platform solution to the problem.

For example, he said, developers for the cable company, which he would not name, the recent deployment of soap and XML processing multiple remote procedure calls between the client firewall on the network front-end and back-office order-processing system .

"They have a mainframe system for processing orders for the box system and Windows front-end Web server," seely said. "When the cable modem users will be ordered, the system is not very good integration and batch processing of a genuine very long time." Because of delays in 24 hours or more orders by overnight batch processing system updates, it is becoming a customer service nightmare. For example, if a customer called back an hour later, a place to have a cable modem delivery and want to change the day of delivery, customer service representatives, unable to find the original order, which will not appear in the order processing system until the next day .

With soap and XML data across firewalls make it possible to solve the cross-platform issue. It abolished the old law called the storage process for a number of overnight operation. Performance improved from 10 to 20 seconds per cent to 1 to 2 seconds per order.

Seely expected in the next six months will be interoperability soap state cross-platform applications using standard will be of benefit to eliminate problems, such as overnight delay between placing an order and complete the network.

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