Dave has some thoughts on the recent W3C “Web Of Services For Enterprise Computing” get-together.
He notes:
“Given all the angst about Web architecture vs Web services architecture, I was also surprised that there was no support for technical reconciliation. I suggested WADL (Web application description language), to help with enterprises and the desperate perl/python hacker building stronger typed REST services. And for the flipside, I suggested improved SOAP to URI/XML bindings so SOAP/WSDL services would be more easily consumable by REST clients.”
No support for technical reconciliation? Why would either side want technical reconciliation when each believes it’s approach is “right” for it’s own needs?
I think he hits the nail with a comment earlier in the posting:
“There was almost no discussion about how enterprise computing is different from “non-enterprise computing””
Which is sad but not surprising - a good amount of the reason we have the whole Web/WS-* debacle is down to the fact that this kind of discussion didn’t happen when it should have. And if we still aren’t having the discussion, technical reconciliation is likely to be impeded.
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