From Alexander's message: 1) "one day SOAP will be over" - no doubt, there is first ... and the last day for everything, isn't it? But there will be something else, in the next spiral loop, rooted in SOAP and others. 2) "Incidentally, this shows a problem with relying on any external SOAP or REST service for some mission-critical role in your own code. How can you be sure that one day your service provider won't turn it off?" - you may be sure at the same level as you are sure that a metheor would not hit your car tomorrow; there are many other example. How people doing business - they take risks (educated and not). It is not about SOAP or REST, it is about dependencies in the society, collaboration and trust (and SW is not an isolated world). People had to expose their businesses making its specialized, i.e. dependent on other specialized businesses, to live in better economical and cultural environment (a few thousand years ago). 3) since dependencies are inevitable, the ways making them less painful are standardization and redundancy, I assume. If standardization is about connectivity, the redundancy is about surviving business failures and business turn off, and about self healing economical competition. - Michael Poulin
Alexander Johannesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The end of SOAP : "It won't happen at once, it wont be overnight, but one day SOAP will be over. We will look back and wonder "what were we thinking". It will be up there with ActiveX, EJB2, and other things that we will describe as mistakes that should never have made it past the powerpoint stage." "Incidentally, this shows a problem with relying on any external SOAP or REST service for some mission-critical role in your own code. How can you be sure that one day your service provider won't turn it off?" http://www.1060.org/blogxter/entry?publicid=4B4C0B46DC743154ECB68300531D6A04 No one can solve the problem of people turning their services completely off, but how do we make sure that switching from one to another is as painless as possible? Alex -- "Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know." - Frank Herbert __ http://shelter.nu/ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
