Stefan Tilkov wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Gervas Douglas wrote: > > > "The core tenet of SOA is loose coupling within Web services and > > without," Kassem said. "In Web services, our [J2EE 1.4] initial foray > > was very RPC-centric. That dramatically shifted with JAX-WS 2.0, it > > was an important programming model shift. It enables us to build more > > loosely coupled Web services that will scale very well for the Web. > > [It] was a significant SOA-centric initiative. > > Bullshit. JAX-WS is as RPC-centric as the JAX-RPC/JAXM combination.
Depending on what you transport and how the interface is described, RPC is equivalent to messaging. The standing issue for interoperability is a common, known wire protocol. Maybe you can elaborate on the rift that you perceive? Gregg Wonderly
