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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: SOAP <-> DCOP
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-23 16:17:37
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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
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Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
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