"At best, the lessons we’ve learned from industry’s work with EDI have shown us that:
Defining standard vocabularies is difficult and time-consuming.
Once defined, standards don’t adapt well.
People don’t implement standards correctly anyway.
Today’s Web services scandal is that:
The hype around dynamic discovery is overblown.
Vendors aren’t focused on the semantic element of the problem.
One wonders if the technology’s evolution is not misdirected."
That's probably why documents should be the primary focus and the way you send bytes and bits is of secondary importance. Build your vocabularies, define your semantics, structure your documents, then talk about SOAP, REST or pigeon mail to deliver them. Posted to services, xml @ 9:15:27 AM ( comments)
Copyright (C) 2002 Paul Kulchenko Updated 8/26/2002; 9:17:19 AM