Request: drop kxmlrpc daemon for 3.2

[Ian Reinhart Geiser]

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On Monday 27 October 2003 08:54 am, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On October 27, 2003 9:33 am, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> 
>
> > I stopped work because I got the impression we gave up on xmlrpc
> > (besides
 it being one of the most popular rpc mechanisms on the web) and
> > are looking at the mythical soap (going on 2 years now folks and still
> > nothing, hint soap isnt all it was cracked up to be...)
> >
>
> 
> Whether or not XML-RPC is supported, I don't think it is a good idea to 
> completely forget about SOAP. Like it or not, MS is really big on SOAP, so
> 
 KDE supporting it through dcop in one way or another will in the future
> be really big for interoperability with MS applications.
See now this is the funny part... i have yet to see any major adoption of SOAP 
at any of my clients... they are all still using XMLRPC since they just 
rolled that out last year. that and in my experience most of what MS uses 
SOAP for is wrapping large binary blobs of COM objects... but i digress ill 
let "open" standards like TNEF back me up there...

As for SOAP support, im not as concerned, no-one has implemented it yet, and 
no-one uses it... for that matter ive only heard one or two requests for 
xmlprc stuff in kde too, and that is because we made sure kxmlrpcd was 
useless enough that everyone ignored it.  Also please review how SOAP works, 
you will find its OVERKILL when you try to shoehorn it into dcop, unlike 
XMLPRC which is almost a 1:1 mapping of most types.  Basicly a XMLRPC message 
is a QVariant, and it fits perfectly.

really XMLPRC/SOAP are cool ideas, and have a high geek factor, but really who 
needs them?  Who uses them?  So far ive only seen a few corner cases on the 
desktop, (some remote query engines)...  There is the XMLRPC over jabber 
though that is interesting though... and that would eliminate most of the 
problems we have with the current impl...

either way, im sure neither are really needed, but having them cannot hurt i 
guess.

Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser
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