more on Adam Bosworth interview

Sean McGrath adds an "Amen." to an exerpt from the Adam Bosworth interview I mentioned in my previous post.

I second that emotion.

Web services (well, certainly SOAP-the-protocol anyway) was designed to support asynchronous messaging. From section 2 of the SOAP1.1 spec:

SOAP messages are fundamentally one-way transmissions from a sender to a receiver, but as illustrated above, SOAP messages are often combined to implement patterns such as request/response.

The problem lies in the SOAP stack implementations and the predominant use of Web services which, much to my chagrin, has been to put pointy brackets around RPCs.

One can only hope.