Re: DIME Use Case?

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:11:37 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.windows.devel.dime
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>Sure, but I have asked the "why DIME" for a year now, and I
>still get back the same (wrong) comparison with MIME.
>
>I am still waiting for an answer.

With all due respect, I think an answer has been provided on several occasions. DIME is not a replacement for MIME, and it is not a protocol. It is a simple wrapper that allows one to choose whether one wants to use XML (such as SOAP), MIME, or something else entirely. When used in combination with something that *is* a protocol (like SOAP for example) then of course that determines what one can do with the DIME message containing the SOAP message.

Henrik