Just a couple of comments... Rajith Attapattu wrote:
Thats true, we cannot and should not try to satisfy everybody. Most people are looking for a magic wand that will create there code with minimum effort as possible.
Hm... so what's wrong with that? If there are packages out on the market which make this stuff really easy and interoperate well with others, it is my belief they are going to win out over more complex/difficult solutions.
Reading the thread on TSS I was sad to see that most people have missed the boat about Web Services. These people expect nothing but to expose their **objects** as Web Services using some framework with minimum effort as possible. Thats as far as they are willing to go with Web Services.
Although an awful lot of people preach doom-and-gloom about how horrible it is to map XML to/from objects, the fact is that a lot of people do it, and a lot of people do it successfully, and it's NOT always a bad idea. Yes, XML has a lot more expressive power than 3/4GLs, and that means that not all XML will cleanly map to objects. However, many objects of "value type" classes (such as you want to pass around in a SOA-style application) *are* going to map pretty cleanly to XML, and this is a very nice feature. We shouldn't dismiss it.
--Glen
