Monday, June 25, 2007

WS... not so interoperable..

from Udi:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UdiDahan-TheSoftwareSimplist/~3/127874396/

"...So imagine my surprise when we “Web Service-ized” a bunch of Java components that exposed just that kind of interface, and it didn’t work. After mucking around for almost the whole day, we started returning to basic principles. We started throwing out parameter after parameter, structure after structure, until we were left with something that should have just worked:
string SomeFunction(char c);
But it didn’t.
This was ridiculous. If Web Services couldn’t give me interoperability at this most basic level, I swore that the whole thing must have been a conspiracy. After some ill-mannered googling, I found out that:
The Java char datatype is not supported because of an omission in XML Schema..."

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