Mark Woods notes that human-readible documentation is important.  Perhaps that's why wsdl document elements were invented?  "The documentation element is allowed inside any WSDL language element."  Seems like more people need to make use of this feature.  In any case, this need not be an either/or situation.  The more documentation the better, I would say.

  10:59:37 AM    

Yesterday, Dave gave me a gift of something that he values very highly: flow.  Unfortunately, no progress was made on something which is of significantly more value to me: interop.

This did cause me to laugh.  Primarily because I found the original to be a bit condescending.  But Dave uses weblogs too, so I like to think that he too is on the path to enlightenment.  Even if he is not willing to admit it to himself.

  6:22:26 AM    

I just noticed this: I turned off the redirected links on the Weblogs.Com home page. They were too jarring.   Thanks!

  6:02:18 AM    

Charles Wiltgen: The best definition of web services that I could find was written by Doug Tidwell of IBM:

Web services are a new breed of web application. They are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and invoked across the web.

Web services perform functions, which can be anything from simple requests to complicated business processes. A simple web service might provide stock quotes or process credit card transactions.

Once a web service is deployed, other applications (and other web services) can discover and invoke the deployed service.

  5:52:28 AM