Web Things, by Mark Baker

Patrick Logan, on the service-orientated-architecture list;

I ran a short experiment with some folks recently testing interoperability among various WS-* toolkits. What a pain. Very little time was available for actual business value. Then we replaced those WS-* toolkits with simple HTTP clients and servers. After a relatively short amount of time learning the specific APIs we were very soon spending nearly all of our time on business value. We paused periodically to examine what we’d lost by moving from WS-* to pure HTTP. We’ve yet to identify one thing of importance to us.