The End Of The Road For Web Services
Simon Phipps,
ComputerworldUK,
Jan 14, 2011
I've long been sceptical of Web Services (properly so-called, not to be confused with actual internet services that use HTTP and REST for loosely-coupled data access). "Formed in the name of 'preventing lock-in' mainly as a competitive action by IBM and Microsoft in the midst of unseemly political knife-play with Sun, they went on to create massively complex layered specifications for conducting transactions across the Internet. Sadly, that was the last thing the Internet really needed." Now it looks like the end of the world for that triumvirate of WSDL-SOAP-UDDL, with the Web Services Interoperability Organization disbanding, their documentation being absorbed by OASIS for historical purposes. Via Tom Hoffman.
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