{"id":612,"date":"2004-12-29T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/12\/29\/predictions\/"},"modified":"2004-12-29T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T20:41:00","slug":"predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/12\/predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmm, somehow I’m just not too excited about things this year. Perhaps\nthis has something to do with me making the most intriguing prediction –\nthe inevitable death of Web services on the Internet –\nthree years ahead, two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

But first, let’s see how I did with\nlast years predictions<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n

As alluded to above, I said that Web services would continue to struggle\nfor adoption on the Internet, and\nlo and behold<\/a>,\nthat’s the case. Ho hum. +1<\/p>\n\n

I also claimed that another high profile public Web service would be\nreleased. I can’t think of any really high profile announcements this past\nyear except for\neBay<\/a>\nI guess, but theirs seems SOAP-only, and isn’t public. Bloglines announced their\nservices<\/a>, but AFAICT,\nthey’re REST-inspired only with no SOA side. So I guess I flubbed that one.<\/p>\n\n

Ok, so this year, hmmm… As I see it, things have really got to start\nhitting the fan in the SOA space. To that end, I make the following two predictions;<\/p>\n\n