A Brief History of SOAP
March 15, 2010 - 6:17 am
It’s been a little more than three years since I first
started working in XML in general and SOAP in particular. For the past year or
so, my own SOAP work has been pretty minimal, mainly because without a stable
XML Schema specification, the thought of building tons of SOAP support plumbing
seems pretty futile. Now that the XML Schema WG has more or less completed its
work, it’s time to get back to work (for me at least).
My first "official" act in this next phase of SOAP’s development is to take a
few minutes to retrace the steps that got us here. Hence this article.