Ok, fess up, who pissed in Chris’ coffee this morning?
I think the operative word from my blog that Chris missed was “need”; that, IMO, we need a WS-* RSS feed because new specs are appearing at a crazy rate. You can’t compare that with the W3C’s TR page and corresponding RSS feed because it represents deltas while the Wiki represents a sigma. If the W3C published a list of recommendations via RSS, that would make for a more fair comparison. So how many Recs have they published? Let’s see, in almost 10 years, they’ve got about 80 (90ish if you include the IETF specs), while there’s 40ish Web services specs listed on the Wiki, the bulk of which have been produced in the past two or three years. Not exactly apples-to-apples, but not too far from it.
He concludes;
Please don’t misunderstand my intent, I like HTTP. Unlike Mark, neither do I think it is the last protocol we’ll ever need (it is not), nor do I spend every waking moment trying to tear it down or to poke fun at things that it simply doesn’t handle effectively. That would be pointless.
Please don’t misunderstand my intent, I like SOAP. I just don’t like how it’s being used. It would best used for document exchange, not RPC (Web services circa 1999-2002), or RPC dressed to look like document exchange (present day Web services). I also don’t “poke fun” at Web services very often, but I do take pride in being able to point out their many architectural flaws in a variety of different ways, which I do frequently. And I don’t think HTTP is “the last protocol we’ll ever need”, though I do believe that if it suddenly became impossible to create any more, that it wouldn’t be such a big deal, at least for those of us building document exchange based Internet scale integration solutions. As for what things HTTP “simply doesn’t handle effectively”, I believe you grossly overestimate the number of items in that list, though clearly it’s non-empty.
So do me a favour and drop the strawmen, ok? You’ve been pulling that crap for years.