Ewan Birney wrote: > I remember all these discussions from those great CORBA days. Boy am I > staying away from this for the moment... (too scared frankly!) >
I don't blame ya... I don't want to be negative (it's not useful), but I suspect not everyone out there is too experienced at building distributed computer systems. My concern is that this (and other) talk about Web Services may leave lots of people with the impression that Web Services are something they're not. Two things people need to know: 1) Building great distributed computer systems is hard. 2) If you're gonna do it, CORBA/J2EE over IIOP/RMI/RMI over IIOP are orders of magnitude more useful than Web Services over http - assuming you want to build a distributet, object-orientated (and possible Enterprise-class) computer systems. Right now, Web Services is nothing more than CGI done a tiny bit better. That's fine if all you want to do is run Blast (in fact, Web Services is really good things like that). But they're not good if you want to build an even slightly sophisticated distributed computer system. I truly don't understand the excitement about Web Services - pleeeaaaasssee no-one say they're really good for tunelling through firewalls, I can't be doin' with that old chestnut ;-) Ho hum... just my two cents etc... Simon -- Simon M. Brocklehurst, Ph.D. Director of Informatics & Robotics Cambridge Antibody Technology The Science Park, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, UK http://www.CambridgeAntibody.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
