Mark Baker wrote: > On 7/6/06, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now either I've been incredibly lucky or I only build mickey mouse >> apps... but I've never had this problem. > > Another possibility is that you don't realize how simple things can > really be? That's how it was for me, at least. > >> What form of scalability are you refering to? > > Number of services. With Web services, for each new service that's > added to the system, in order for existing components to be able to > communicate with it, you have to modify them (ignoring the data issue, > which is the same with both). Not so with REST. >
Oh, err, not with you - if we are ignoring the data issue what other modifications are we talking about? > In technical terms, integration complexity with Web services is > typically O(NlogN) (O(N^2) worst case). With REST it's O(logN) (O(N) > worst case). There are even REST extensions where you can achieve > O(1) at scale (e.g. weblog aggregation, search). SOA is totally > heading in the wrong direction in terms of scaling. > > Mark. > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
