On 4/13/06, Elias Sinderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Indeed, and the conclusions no less relevant now than they were when it
> was published -- did you even read the article? :-) FYI, here is a
> more recent paper published out of the TSpaces group:
I read it (or a similar paper on TSpaces) about 4 years ago :-) FWIW I
really did buy the "sweet spot" argument in section 1.1 of that paper.
My only question is whether others still do? Technically, I like the
idea very much-- "loosely coupled in location, platform, and time" is
how I remember Patrick Thompson (or Ruple fame) describing the basic
design pattern.
The non-technical problems I see are:
- The web (now that most serious sites are backed by DBMS) plucked the
low hanging fruit. I can reserve hotel rooms, synch my cellphone with
Outlook, etc. etc. over the web now, maybe not as cleanly as one might
with J/T/X-Spaces, but some VC or telco has put up the big bucks to
make these things work by brute force.
- Worse is better -- The value of the web's network effect overwhelms
its kludginess (sorry Mark, no +1 from you today!) as a platform for
the kinds of apps that J/T/X-spaces envisioned.
- WS-* grabbed the mindshare among people who have enterprise-class
problems to solve that are too difficult to kludge around with raw
HTTP+XML.
I would be very happy to be wrong on the non-technical issues, but
need some evidence that they are being overcome before I can get too
excited about this stuff again.
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