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Web Services/SOAP and CORBA: This paper is written from a CORBA point of view and the author tries to trash Web Services. I have to admit that I did not yet read the whole thing but I found one interesting bit: In section nine, the author talks about the possible advantages of human readable data formats
Some may argue that it is a good thing that the protocol is readable by humans. This may allow for easier developing and debugging, but is that true? What real use is human readability at the protocol level? In any inter-corporation data exchange scenario it’s going to be encrypted anyway. And are developers really interested in what passes over the wire? I’d rather not think about that and concentrate on the important parts of the application.
Maybe we should think again about SMTP and POP3 and how they changed the world, right? Human readable protocols are normally a little bit slower but somehow people actually like to see what's going over the wire. They maybe also like to be able to debug email systems simply by using telnet. And finally: if I can read it, I can implement it in no time.
Did you ever write your own CORBA implementation for a programming language of choice, where no implementation existed before? Why not?
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