Web Things, by Mark Baker

WS-I heralds breakthrough architectural style
Thursday April 1, 2004 6:00 am ET


San Jose, USA. -- The WS-I today announced the creation of the "NULL
architectural style", the next step in the evolution of large scale
distributed systems.  It is a generalization of so-called Service
Oriented Architecture ("SOA") styles, which have so far been used
primarily behind corporate firewalls.

The NULL architectural is characterized as having no architectural
constraints, providing the ultimate in flexibility for today's dynamic
enterprise.  "By removing all architectural constraints, we have built
the perfect base from which to develop dynamic, loosely coupled systems",
said Ben Dover, WS-I spokesperson.  "It seemed the next obvious step.
First, we improved upon the Web by disregarding its most important
constraints.  So clearly, disregarding the constraints of Web services
themselves must be an even better idea!".  He added, "As one can do no
better than to have no architectural constraints, this is quite
literally the ultimate in architectural styles!".

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