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Hi Simon, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > And for those of us more interested in the Web than in the members, it > may not be such a bad thing to see the hype-meisters of Web Services > take their toys and go someplace else. > > They might conceivably do less damage to XML and the Web that way, in > any case. > I guess I'm part of the hype - I've written the chapters, given the demos. As far as I can see WS is basically sound. There are some potential technical problems, but none of them look like show-stoppers to me: [1] Interoperability is largely but not fully mature - you may get problems like different conventions for generating SOAPActions [2] there may be problems with SOAP being laggy and slow (compared to what now?) [3] UDDI's query interface feels somewhat ad-hoc and makes various GUIDs too visible. None of these problems give WS a competitive disadvantage with any existing technology stack. Web Services simply takes us to a new area of low-cost interoperability. Consider the achievement of WS - any connectivity project which has a pattern of "X builds a server and describe a protocol; Y builds a client; X and Y debug like hell, blame each other and wonder if anyone has ever done it before but give up because they wouldn't be able to re-use any of it anyway" will become seriously simpler, cheaper and more robust. Now if I've overlooked some major technical flaw, or underestimated the impact of one, I really would like to know. But right now I can't see any problems that can't be solved in stage two, and I don't see how this is going to damage XML and the Web. Is the success or the failure of Web Services that you fear more? Francis.
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