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They do. WSDL.
As for the use of resources out there, one can
make the case for the water, but the horse chooses.
The legal problem is what the W3C warranties.
The political problem is not to dilute the
so-called imprimatur of the specification
organization by grand standing on the SOAP
specification to the point that to make
any more progress, SOAP vendors and their
customers believe that they
have to seek other authorities.
It's much easier with specifications. Then
the technology has to speak for itself. Calling
these standards means the organization has to
be the authority and that spells trouble where
technologies are emergent. If the authority says
"we have a better way and we won't recognize your way"
then the submitter is backed into a corner with
nothing to lose and a lot to gain by going elsewhere.
So far, they are going to their customers and their
customers are approving. This is exactly how
ISO hit the skids.
IMO: SOAP 1.2 needs to go forward. Code is
shipping; it is a fait accompli. REST advocates,
the TAG, etc., and the WGs have to spend time
working out a RESTy SOAP given that this can
be established as a requirement. The education
of the community has to continue based on clear
and simple comparisons such as are emerging from
these threads and the articles so when an implementor
must choose, and they are the ones who choose for
their customers, they do so completely aware of
the lifecycle consequences of the architecture,
both in the short term of implementation, and
in the long term of support and maintenance.
What we field, we must support. Control of
promises is the sine qua non of good management.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:07:20PM +0100, Bill de hOra wrote:
> If it's the case that this use of SOAP "*cannot*" win, what's all the
> fuss about? Seriously.
Because there's a whole lot of resources being spent on this stuff
that could be directed towards improving and expanding the Web.
To Len; I agree with you, except most Web services proponents I've
talked to *want* to be able to gain the benefits of the Web with Web
services.
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