I just don’t see this being useful to anybody involved in software development. Perhaps if it were recast in the language of software architecture, it would make sense? Is that even possible? (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]
Sage advice from Patrick Logan; Simple dynamic programming languages and simple dynamic coordination languages are winning. Vendors will have to differentiate themselves on something more than wizards that mask complexity. On the upside, when most every other vendor is hocking snake oil, differentiation from those vendors isn’t hard. On the downside, as Patrick points out,… Read More »
Now don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate the bevy of pro – or at least neutral – REST commentary in the recent discussion. But I just can’t get excited about the “moderate” conclusions such as this from Dare Obasanjo; If you know the target platform of the consumers of your service is going to… Read More »
If you’d have asked me six or seven years ago – when this whole Web services things was kicking off – how things were likely to go with them, I would have said – and indeed, have said many times since – that they would fail to see widespread use on the Internet, as their… Read More »
“So for ten-orders-of-magnitude-power-law-phenomena our candidates are: cosmology and the web. Are there any others?” Mind-blowing. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]
“REST folk […] appreciate schemas as much as the SOAP crowd does. We just don’t confuse the issue by putting method semantics into them.” Heh, yep. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]
“The Web, Plain-Old-XML, XMPP, and JSON are the way forward. And I think, deep down, everyone knows it.” If only it were so, Robert. 8-( (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]
A fine example of begging the question by Mike. The Web can and does do reliable and secure “heavy lifting”. Just look around to Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, … (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]
Don Box gives us his two cents on a Microsoft-internal “REST vs. SOA(P)” debate; The following design decisions are orthogonal, even though people often conflate two or more of them: Whether one uses SOAP or POX (plain-old-XML). Whether or not one publishes an XML schema for their formats. Whether or not one generates static language… Read More »