Is SOAP viable for local process communication?

[paul.drummond]

Hi all,

I am new to whole idea of "web services" and architectures such as .NET
and J2EE so please bare with me. I am trying to research as much as
possible before asking silly questions but there is so much out there!
I need to start somewhere!!!

My question is, when developing local non-web based applications, is
SOAP still the standard way to communicate between applications in the
..NET world?

I realise SOAP is less efficient than other mechanisms and I also
realise the decision to use SOAP depends on the problem domain (whether
the app could potentially become web-based is certainly a factor) but
that's not the qeustion - regardless of the advantages/disadvantages
(which I will evalulate at a later time) I am just wondering whether
SOAP is used this way in real world scenarios, as a local process
communication mechanism or whether it's just too slow (for example) for
this to be viable.

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello (e-mail address removed),

The question is where and when do u want to use SOAP?
In case of enterprise apps - SOAP is misleading, coz it use .net remouting
that is slow
In case of Web-app - WS is the best choise due to heterogeniety

Hi all,

I am new to whole idea of "web services" and architectures such as
.NET and J2EE so please bare with me. I am trying to research as much
as possible before asking silly questions but there is so much out
there! I need to start somewhere!!!

My question is, when developing local non-web based applications, is
SOAP still the standard way to communicate between applications in the
.NET world?

I realise SOAP is less efficient than other mechanisms and I also
realise the decision to use SOAP depends on the problem domain
(whether the app could potentially become web-based is certainly a
factor) but that's not the qeustion - regardless of the
advantages/disadvantages (which I will evalulate at a later time) I am
just wondering whether SOAP is used this way in real world scenarios,
as a local process communication mechanism or whether it's just too
slow (for example) for this to be viable.

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