SOAP better than other RPC ?

[Alex Dovlecel <do...@kbs.twi.tudelft.nl>]

I am trying to write my license paper on WEB Services and SOAP (in 
particular). And I am interested also in presenting the AXIS and SOAP tools 
from Apache. 

But for begining, it will be very interesting to listen to your ideas about 
why SOAP is better (or not) than other RPC stuff? And when should be picked 
up as a reliable transport layer for an application (in what particular 
circumstances), and when not... 

My own oppinion: SOAP is great because it starts to spread very fast... and 
is even used by .NET platform. Even interop is sometimes a problem, this 
seems to be a very good tool for crossplatform communication and stuff like 
this. 

Is very easy to develop soap services, and is very easy to see the data that 
is send... 

And I might have alot of PROs for soap... but none of them comes right now in 
my mind. :o))) 

It will be great to hear from you (on axis-user), because is not enough just 
reading the books or the axis site... 

Tx 
dovle