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CREATED BY james • LAST EDITED BY james 7931 days AGO

well... instead of using a request-based model, why not implement a network protocol based directly on message passing? It seems to me this could be done much more effectively and efficiently directly ontop of TCP, rather than via XML-RPC/SOAP over HTTP and Web Services.

I know we have stuff like RMI, regular RPC and that stuff - but why not provide a network layer for doing that unversally (a-la SOAP/.XML-RPC) but not have to have it piggy back HTTP?

That's just one example i pulled off the top of my head, the important thing is not what I can imagine, but stuff that I cannot imagine. If the world locks in to Web Services and everything running through modules on webservers, the horrendous architectures we'll end up with will be a nightmare, which might have been avoided by abandoning the current "HTTP-is-the-Internet" mentality of corporations and 'breakthroughs' in programming models.