It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again
"You could probably waste an entire day on the preceding links alone. But why take chances? We also give you Paul Snively..." — John Wiseman, lemonodor
Eric Schonfeld: "What the *&%*$@!! Are Web Services? (And Why You Should Care.)" FWIW, I think Web Services the way Eric talks about them, are not worth caring about. Let the BigCo's slug it out. It's just another stinky industry slugfest. Borrowing a line from today's song, below. What's that I smell? Do I smell home cookin? No, it's only the river, it's only the river. I suppose you'd have to have lived next to the Mississippi River to get that one. [Scripting News]
It's especially goofy to position some combination of WebSphere + Eclipse as competitive with Visual Studio and .NET. WebSphere is far too heavyweight and Eclipse is far too immature, and they don't have anything like the focus on integration and seamlessness that Visual Studio and .NET have had the opportunity to evolve.
If you're a Java developer and want painless web services, develop with GLUE. If you need to wrap web services around existing corporate IT infrastructure, consider Resin. Either way, you'll avoid tons of complexity, overhead, confusion, and literal $$$ cost from either Sun's or IBM's tools.
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Paul Prescod: ...The fundamental idea is that every important data object should have an address so that it can be referenced. When you apply that technique to human communications you get Blogging. When you apply it to machine to machine communications you get a much more powerful type of web services... Wow! [Via Eclectic] [A Frog in the Valley, le weblog de Sylvain Carle]
When (if?) I grow up, I want Paul Prescod's explanatory abilities. His post above has the clearest, most comprehensive explanation of the REST philosophy I've seen in print so far, and it takes less than a paragraph. So why are you still reading this? Get clicking!
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