On Dec 9, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > > > Neither is a silver bullet. I don't know of any WS-* folks who > seriously > think that WS-* is a silver bullet. Its *amazing* to me how many REST > people (especially on this list) seem to really believe that REST > is the > silver bullet
REST people do not think that. What they (at least I) think is that SOA/WS-* is just Corba/DCOM by another name; that you get the exact same architectural properties with SOA/WS-* as you get with a resonably smart design Corba system. (Language independence and tunneling through firewalls are not really a very major improvement architecturally speaking). > and that it has been a silver bullet for 15 years and > people just have not known about it. Wow, it must be really comfy in > that world .. Yes, it is comfy in this world. Less pages of specs to read, heaps of thoroughly tested frameworks etc. 100% interoprability at the protocol level (MS HTTP servers work just fine with IBM clients), having guarranteed system properties (by using a really thought out architectural style), no vendor lock in, nothing to spend on software licences but still having virtually thousands of support programmers - to name just a few. Yepp, it is indeed very comfy...so very comfy that we cannot resist the temptation to restlessly try to convert as many people as possible. <esoteric-mode> Yes, once you have had your Web epiphany, you just have to spread the word. (A bit like George Clinton and the Mother Ship I guess...but that is another story :-) </esoteric-mode> > are there even 70 virgins that come with getting it? ;-) Oh boy...you'd be surprised what else you get as part of the price but that is unfortunately a secret. Whetever....in the end, I do hope that simplicity will prevail. Jan > Sanjiva. > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http:// > www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ > Director; Open Source Initiative; http://www.opensource.org/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
