Web Services are the Future
Phil wrote:
Tim Oreilly is a Stud. I just ran across Tim's talk on Inventing the Future. Great stuff. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
I agree with Phil's assessment. Orielly makes some very good points in this article. His discussion on web services really struck a cord with me. He mentioned a few technologies that are the future, but most of the article was on web services. I hadn't made the connection between web services and web spiders before, but I see it now. Often times, the creator of a system cannot fully envision all of the uses for the data produced by the system. Making it (the data, or the processing, the system) available to outside systems or other internal systems makes sense. Intrepid developers have been scraping the data anyway, why not make it available and possibly create a mutually beneficial relationship?
I see web services as having tremendous potential benefit for the people of this great state. If we could encourage (or require?) all state agencies to make the functions of their applications (not necessarily all applications) available as web services, with published APIs for other applications to implement, the benefit would be huge. Plus, agencies wouldn't be tied to any particular vendor, language or platform. They would just have to make the standard XML web service available.
Admittedly, this is pretty bleeding edge, but I really think that the sooner we think like this as an enterprise, the quicker we will reach our eventual destination. As web services technologies and standards (particularly security standards) evolve, we should be in position to capitalize on the potential benefits. As for me, I will evangelize these issues within my circle of influence.
2:10:19 PM 
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