Saturday, October 05, 2002

Web Services Market Economics (1) Tim Clark in XML-Journal (v3 n8) article 'Orchestration: The Missing Link' has an excellent overview of the shortcomings of the Web Services market. Explaining how orchestrating tools are needed to manage granular Web services into broader applications that can help reuse Web Services.  Web Service Cordination (WS-Coordination) specification is out - it provides for flexibility and extensions in managing distributed applications. This specification framework is not only for transaction systems but other forms of distributed applications that are communication and collaboration based. Yet another application for Groove ? How far is the current Web Services market from the 'Future Information Economies' where software bots do the Bickering, Bidding and Brokering ? 8:38:30 AM