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Re:Everything old is new again: Microservices by arethuza on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @07:35AM (#17029022)
Personally, I think SOAP tooling can be a very leaky abstraction - things are great (e.g. adding a reference to a web service in Visual Studio is trivial) but then when something doesn't work quite as expected (particularly when calling between different tech platforms) debugging could be a nightmare.

My experiences with SOAP were that 99% of the time it was fine - but those other 1% seems to take the other 99% of my time... ;-)

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Re:Everything old is new again: Microservices by fuhrysteve on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:13AM (#17029191)
Yes, my experience with SOAP is that even well written and maintained clients only work out-of-the-box with like half of the vendor-supplied services you come across.

In many cases, I'll simply formulate xml requests myself and use a generic http request client because the implementation ended up being simpler & easier to maintain than all the confusing hacks I had to do to make zeep or suds (the most popular SOAP clients implemented in python) function properly.

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