From kde-core-devel Sat Jun 23 16:17:37 2001 From: Kurt Granroth Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:17:37 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: SOAP <-> DCOP X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99331313611153 On Saturday 23 June 2001 07:58 am, Martijn Klingens wrote: > > BTW, having read all the docs and written some implementation, I've > > decided that SOAP is a great protocol :) > > Can it (technically) replace e.g. DCOP in KDE 3? Not that I'm saying I want > this, just curious. I guess this is getting off-topic here, so a private > reply might be in order... No, for the same reasons that XML-RPC didn't replace DCOP. Two of the big ones: * DCOP is an order of magnitude faster (string parsing is very slow) * DCOP handles native types a lot better -- Kurt Granroth | http://www.granroth.org KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer granroth@kde.org | granroth@suse.com KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop