RE: [xml-dev] Web Services/SOA (was RE: [xml-dev] XML 2004 weblog items?)

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

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> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:59 AM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Web Services/SOA (was RE: [xml-dev] 
> XML 2004 weblog items?)
>  
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/Indigo/default.aspx
> > 
> > * Boundaries are explicit
> > * Services are autonomous
> > * Services share schema and contract, not class
> > * Service compatibility is determined based on policy
> > 
> 
> I like them too because they're constraints of a sort.  But 
> they are also pretty vague, and therefore don't provide a 
> whole lot of guidance for developers.  Perhaps if they were 
> expanded upon, so that each described, in architectural 
> terms, *exactly* what was constrained, they'd be of greater 
> value (yes, I've seen the expanded version, but it still 
> falls short IMO).  It would certainly allow others to 
> constructively critique them.  As is, they seem a bit 
> "motherhood and apple pie" to me, akin to "Components shall 
> not be tightly coupled", or "The interface shall not expose 
> implementation details".

I've felt the same way and mentioned it to Don and others on the Indigo
team that more guidance is needed beyond the high level exhortations
that have come out of Redmond so far. I suspect that I'll eventually end
up co-writing something in this vein especially now that I am a user of
XML Web Services technologies as opposed to being responsible for low
level components the infrastructure is dependent on. 

> 
> It's also interesting to note that Don is still promoting RPC 
> based SOAP services (via his use of wsa:Action), so it seems 
> these tenets of his don't exclude it.  I think that's a 
> significant deficiency.

I haven't paid close enough attention to WS-Addressing to debate the
merits of your claim but it is on my to-read list. 

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