SOAP API questions

[Andreas Gruenhagen <an...@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

Hello to everybody,
maybe these are stupid questions, but 
-Why does the SOAP-API use this RPC ?
 Why don't we take simple sockets ?

Some further questions which crossed my mind while browsing the SOAP-API
- Why is there a Class 'RPCRouter' ? The routing does not concern SOAP !
- Why is there no method: 
 public Document getContent()
  which returns the content in the Class org.apache.soap.Body
 Instead we have got a method 
 public java.util.Vector getBodyEntries() 
 which returns a Vector. The single elements have to be casted to 'Element'.  
 That's bad design.

- What is an EnvelopeEditor good for ?
   If I want to change an enevelop, I create a new body object.
   What is an EnvelopeEditor supposed to do in 'editIncoming' and   
   'editOutgoing' ?   Ok, edit the incomming and the outgoing, but that's 
very general. Shouldn't the interface be a bit more specific ?
   Why are these things not documented ?
- What should a 'Provider' provide ?
  As far as I can see, it provides information about services. but which
  services ? Only the locally deployed services ? 
  And again :
  Why are these things not documented ?
  
thanks 
andreas

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