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Re:Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We ma... by userbinator on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:03AM (#49707939)
The answer is probably "because SOAP was the hot new thing when they first decided to do this".

Working with enterprise software is in general a horrific experience, especially that which originated in the 90s at the peak of OOP dogma-cults and insane architecture-astronautism abstraction mixed with SOLIDly thick levels of bureaucracy.

My memories of COM, CORBA, DCE/RPC, XML, etc. are not great. Some of the stuff reads like satire today, but people were actually serious about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Management_Group (I recall an article in a physical magazine long ago which started with "The Object Management Group's Working Task Force, also known as OMGWTF...")

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Re:Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We ma... by beachy on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:33AM (#49708138)
Sat in many meetings talking about CORBA and COM. And XML is the gift that just keeps giving. Thank god that stuff is in the rear view mirror.

However in the age of AI I don't know if it matters too much that SOAP is the interchange. It is easy enough to build clients against it. It works. It's probably quite secure. Who cares?

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Re:Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We ma... by altmanaltman on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:44AM (#49708218)
> especially that which originated in the 90s at the peak of OOP dogma-cults and insane architecture-astronautism abstraction mixed with SOLIDly thick levels of bureaucracy.

this is hacker poetry

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