The fact that Ovid's app broke as soon as a non-SOAP::Lite client was used is proof to me that using these SOAP::Lite specific features is only a good idea in closed environments.

Its inevitable that folks will use SOAP to build' yet another distributed object framework'. Eric Raymond points out in this open letter why this probably not a good idea.

mitd-Made in the Dark
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