> I notice in the interview that Paul waffles a bit on the question of which > Web services specs people are going to use.
Do I? In general I'm pretty clear on what specs people are going to use (And this is an ordered list, with the things at the bottom being used by a smaller %age) 0) HTTP - this is a given, and I include REST usage in here 1) SOAP/HTTPS - this is the most common usage of SOAP 2) WS-Security - there are plenty of usecases for this, and Signatures and transport-independent security are the main drivers for using SOAP instead of REST or POX. 3) MTOM - this is very important for real-world data exchange because its efficient. 4) WS-Addressing - because most modern SOAP stacks do this for free and it should have been part of SOAP anyway. And its hard to be async without it, and async is good. 5) WS-RM - the uptake of this isn't as good as I want it to be - but then I had very high expectations. Anyway, it seems to having pretty good growth - projects like the Danish national SOA and French Government are mandating it, and I think the WS-I RASP initiative will also give it a boost. > This is understandable, since > he's co-chair of WS-RX. As co-chair of WS-TX it's hard for me to > acknowledge that not a lot of people are using it. I find it quite easy to acknowledge not many people are using TX :) > In my interview with Darryl Taft I tried to be more clear that the core > specs (SOAP, WSDL, WS-Security) are the ones most broadly adopted. I agree > Paul dismisses this by saying he doesn't think it's possible to do both, but > he works for a company that does only one. I said - and I stand by this - that it is hard to do both. I don't think its impossible, but it is a constant juggling act. The reason I work for a company that only does one is because I *founded* that company with that vision. I used to work for a company that had a open/closed strategy and I think anyone honest within IBM Software Group will say that its still an evolving story and its a hard balancing act to do. Paul -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com
