Steve Jones wrote: > 2008/10/31 Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:distobj%40acm.org>>: > > I think I saw perhaps one or two examples of WS-* being used for > > document passing. And I saw lots of examples. > > Not from me you didn't ;) What this comes down to, and Roy's rant, > is that lots of people seem unable to use technologies correctly no > matter how simple people think they are making it. I'd argue that > this is because it doesn't guide the abstract thinking enough.
This technology is not something you use. It is something you design to use. It takes explicit software architectures to make use of this technology and that architecture while very much a "data transfer" (which RPC is as well) technology, also includes the "hyperlink" concept which implies that work flow is not in your software, but in the content of what you consume. So it requires the building of an engine that is a "programming language interpreter" for the most part. If you service client is just a web browser, than there are tons of existing technologies that you can just use. If your client is another service, than you might have a lot more work to do to create the engine for consuming the hypermedia content of your transfered data. Gregg Wonderly
