Web services specs (or mushrooms?)
With the Web Services specs sprouting like mushrooms. What should developers and IT managers look out and plan for?
Here's a tip:Find out which specs are going into Indigo / next version of J2EE App servers like Websphere and focus just on those. Those are the ones you can bet on.
Also look for Interop demos from vendors like Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services: Architecture and Composition to look for clues as well.
WSE and ETTK have their place for getting folks interested and showing commitment but the bottom line is "You need to move code to production". Right?
Notes: Am specifically referring to WS-* specifications that are NOT in any standards body.
Comments
Of course, presence of spec in standards body doesnt guarantee success -c.f. WS-RF, that is so fundamentally different that takeup may be patchy.
Also, it is those specs that are implemented *across* implementations that really matter. Take, for example, attachments. If we had one that was x-platform, there would be less grief.
Posted by: Steve Loughran | March 31, 2004 05:11 AM
Is there a place where I can get a current list of the ws-specs, both accepted and working draft ?
Thanks
Posted by: Guy Provost | April 18, 2004 08:19 AM