That is true, but there is also the other side of the story.

As an end user, when you call web service, you don't care whether SOAP is behind everything (although you know that for a fact, but you don't care). All you care is that you are calling a function or a method, whatever how you call it. Obviously you can paa an object to the call (and you don't care how it is marshalled).

One of my web service call accept an Pair object, and return a different Pair object (Pair is nothing more than a pair of interger and bunch of methods), and the server side is in java. When I call it from Ruby, I can define a similar class on the client (in Ruby), and send and receive the Ruby Pair object, as if it is a Java Pair object. That's really handy, makes lots of sense.

When I use SOAP::Lite, I have to treat the object as a hash, which is not a big deal, if the namespace was not mishandled.

In reply to Re^3: SOAP and Perl by Anonymous Monk
in thread SOAP and Perl by Anonymous Monk

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