On 12/18/06, Alexander Johannesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
This reminds me of the Web services proponents who claimed "HTTP was unreliable" because it **reliably** told them that somebody turned a service off (with a 404 response code, of course). But to answer your question, we make it painless by using an architectural style, standards, and software best practices which can accomodate change. I can't claim that any change to an app using a Web based stack won't result in a broken application, but they're far more robust than those built atop a Web services stack. Mark.
