Monday, March 18, 2002

General Motors is trying out Web Services.  "Because GM uses hardware and software from almost every major vendor, [they] need to be sure that each company's implementation will be truly standards-based." 10:13:41 AM

DTSTTW.  A key element of the XP philosphy, and a guiding design principle for more than you'd think at first.  The Web took off, not because it was the first thing built with networking capabilities, but because the HTTP protocol is perhaps the simplest to use for developers.  How many projects do you know that have collapsed under a burden of complexity?  Keep it simple. 9:58:21 AM

What's so great about XML-RPC?  It is simple, and it works.  Byte magazine agrees.  SOAP may work too, but has a whole bunch of bells and whistles that are probably not needed.  Bells and whistles add cost (performance and implementation) and complexity. 9:32:37 AM

Web Services are the real deal.  Here's an interview with Bob Sutor, Director of IBM's e-business Standards Strategy whose job it is to think so too.  Unfortunately, the article doesn't address two of our biggest concerns with Web Services. One, it is becoming overhyped. And two, technologies that serve as the basis for the hyped Web Services, such as SOAP and .NET, are unnecessarily complex.  XML-RPC anyone? 9:26:52 AM

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