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As I scroll through the latest round of Web services vs REST debates,
it's like watching the American presidential election. I read articles
which attempt to characterize the complexity of web services with
page counts of the specs, but they don't explain how the alternatives
will support the complexities of large scale enterprise applications.
Or they say, 'we don't do those so we don't care' which is fine but
worthless as critique.
In other words, no one seems to deal with the issues, they are just
banging away at the reputation of their opposition and no matter
how one dresses that up, it is just demogoguery intended to confuse
the marketplace.
A feedback loop for learning requires one to be willing to learn.
That means measurements of the problem, not measurements of the
containers.
So far, I haven't seen much about the semantic web services that I can't
do with code except reuse the code blindly. So I am a bit sceptical
of the immediate utility, but I've been wrong before about things like
that. On the other hand, with regards to web services, from where I
sit, there are immediate needs to apply this technology and I am not
concerned that major vendors are pulling away into small teams to
get the work done faster. I am very concerned that policy for its
application (eg, privacy guidelines, retention guidelines, access
guidelines, and so on) are not being created particularly in the
U.S.A. where the implementations will penetrate the systems fast
once we are past the upcoming election. In a millieu in which it
has become acceptable to deny facts, fudge measurements, and otherwise
just bang on the opposition without regard to the reality of the
situation on the ground, I am pessimistic about how well this
conflation of technical politics and governance will work out in
the near term. To use a feedback loop, one has to be willing
to learn not just redirect fire on the same target.
len
From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@zenucom.com]
all the ws-* stuff and all the owl stuff will need similar feedback
loops for learning. they will need to cope with generalities and
specifics. they will need access to computer equivalents of google and
they will need a way to evaluate the results.
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