[Rets-dev] Re: Re: Problems with Digest....

[Keith T. Garner]

mhb1 at se-tel.com wrote:
> Also, I was wondering why CRT didn't just use the existing HTTP protocol
> in conjunction with SOAP or WSDL, since RETS developed after SOAP and
> WDSL?

Just for a point of clarification.  CRT itself didn't do anything.  The RETS
committee did, of which CRT has been an active member for the past 4.5
years.  (CRT has only been around for 4.5 years.)  RETS predates CRT by 4
years (or more?)

I don't want CRT to take credit for the great work the RETS committee has
done, especially the engineering work before we were involved.

> Anyway, again, thanks for the reply. I think once I get this
> implementation finished, and if the company I work for approves it, I will
> post it on SourceForge and turn it over to the Open Source community. I
> feel like there is a dire need for a *native* .NET implementation of this
> protocol and it might help out the industry.

Out of curiosity, is there a reason that the native .NET implementation
would be preferred over the libRETS bindings?  (This is more so we can
improve libRETS vs. being anti-.NET.)

> Especially since .NET is so
> popular now. It would be good for people to see an example of how this
> might be done in a .NET language.

I agree with that.

Keith

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