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Tom Welsh <news@tom-welsh.co.uk> writes:

> Unless, ho ho, they communicate using magic Web services. Then, because
> all messages are expressed in terms of self-describing XML, the receiver
> can always understand what the sender means.

Wonderful. For your next task, have Delphi understand an Axis WSDL
with a method returning a collection.

SOAP is usable if all you have can be expressed as primitives or
String. But still way too much overhead for 99.9 % of cases.