On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:30:18PM -0400, Anil John wrote: > Agreed RE: the Web. But do the same concepts apply, in the current > state of technology, to the web service world?
Ah, I see that you're not familiar with my position. 8-) My claim has always been that the Web is a system which can be used to meet the big picture objectives of SOA; that it's had a "service model", usable for machine-to-machine communications and integration, since day one, when TimBL wrote the first Web server. It's just a different model than that offered by the likes of CORBA or DCOM - a more loosely coupled, document oriented one more akin to MOM - but just as capable. It's also packaged in a manner that makes it very difficult for Web services proponents to recognize, and to relate it to what they know. IMO, this is primarily because a key enabling piece of the architecture happens to share the same name (despite being a very different beast) with a largely insignificant piece of the CORBA/DCOM-like architectures; the protocol. You might enjoy an article I wrote a few weeks ago on this subject; http://www.coactus.com/blog/2005/07/towards-truly-document-oriented-web-services/ Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
