“This is how most web applications work.”. Actually, it isn’t. Most Web applications are stateless. Of those that aren’t, the vast majority are only stateful for authentication purposes. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]
“in my experience, a lot of folk who should be thinking of asynch. XML messaging in POP3 terms, think of it in SMTP terms”. +1. IME, it’s almost always a matter of trust. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]
Mike Champion asks; […]we all know what a service-oriented automated restaurant would look like — just like the human-powered service-oriented restaurants that have evolved over that last couple hundred years. What about a resource-oriented restaurant? I can see how that would work for fast food place (GET a menu, POST an order, which returns a… Read More »
“200X will be the year of SOA/WS!!!”. Hah. It seems that Web services and CORBA share more than just a similar architectural style. 8-) (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]