{"id":176,"date":"2003-09-24T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=137"},"modified":"2003-09-24T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T23:49:00","slug":"ray-lane-are-web-services-really-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/09\/ray-lane-are-web-services-really-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Lane; Are Web Services Really the Answer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alwayson-network.com\/comments.php?id=1078_0_3_0_C\">&#8220;blog&#8221; entry<\/a>\nof Ray Lane&#8217;s via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\">Google News<\/a> today, and of course\nthe title caught my eye.  But I&#8217;ve been caught by titles before, and the article normally\nturns out to say, in effect, <em>Yes<\/em>, they are the answer.<\/p>\n\n<p>So this was a nice surprise;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nThe software industry&#8217;s answer to all this is Web services. That&#8217;s the next big thing. It&#8217;s supposed to solve a lot of problems. When you talk to most of the large suppliers, they spill a bunch of acronyms and say all this will allow you to integrate. But it won&#8217;t; it just won&#8217;t.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>So far so good.  He goes on to talk about <em>why<\/em> he feels it won&#8217;t work &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nThere are standards, and certainly messaging and integration are easier, but we don&#8217;t know yet how to handle the semantic differences between industrial messages that are coming from suppliers to OEMs to whatever. XML, Sun ONE, Orion, Longhorn, on-demand computing, yada, yada, yada. There are a lot of solutions, a lot of hammers looking for the nail.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I disagree with the first sentence; what Web services are, does <em>not<\/em>\nmake messaging and integration easier (though SOAP arguably does, a little &#8211;\nWeb services as a whole make it <em>significantly<\/em> harder).  The second part,\nI completely agree with though; we don&#8217;t <em>know<\/em> how to solve those problems.\nBut we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/sw\/\">trying<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I caught this &#8220;blog&#8221; entry of Ray Lane&#8217;s via Google News today, and of course the title caught my eye. But I&#8217;ve been caught by titles before, and the article normally turns out to say, in effect, Yes, they are the answer. So this was a nice surprise; The software industry&#8217;s answer to all this [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,40],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}