WS-I released the first draft of the Basic Profile today. I don’t know how they manage to write so much about something that isn’t necessary; you wouldn’t need profiles if interoperability were well defined. It seems to be purely a political move to bundle specs together so that the technology doesn’t look like it could be easily marginalized (though it can).
I mean, really, why on earth does anybody need to specify the possible HTTP response codes to be used, when HTTP clients can already deal with all of them (even if only to fallback to x00)?
And cookies for state management? Puh-leeze! Cookies are a hack, and only make any kind of sense when you’re dealing with an installed base (browsers) that support them. Remove the browser, and you could do state management properly, on the client (and only on the client) instead of the server. This is Distributed Systems 101 stuff here, sheesh.
Sigh. It disappoints me to think of all the time and money the industry is wasting on this.
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