<sarcasm> WSIF is dead or dying and on it's last legs?
</sarcasm> Hardly! BPEL engines are gaining ground and attention, not to mention market share. Virtually every BPEL engine out there supports WSIF as an interface/invocation technology. And these are from "small/inconspicuous" vendors such as IBM, Oracle and others. JBI and SCA? They are too complex, too heavy weight, not standardized, not available and compete with each other. Who knows where that space will go. And I bet that JBI and SCA will probably need something like WSIF as a sub-component. Contrast that with WSIF's market penetration, simplicity and functionality. You can build an amazing architectural framework to enable cheaper/faster/better delivery of SOA-based applications using just WSIF (I know 'cause I've done it). No contest. WSDL 2.0 is around the corner and there is a place for WSIF to integrate the new WODEN WSDL framework to support WSDL 2.0. Not to mention the addition of more providers. We have an opportunity to make WSIF even more attractive, compelling and important. Let's not waste it! As for the gentleman that suggested that WSIF needs to be put out to pasture? He's deluded and uninformed. ;-) Need I say more? That being said, I would like to propose that we rename WSIF to just SIF. The "Web" term is misleading and superfluous. Some rebranding and repositioning of SIF would go a long way to explaining to many it's value proposition. ....Andrzej Chaeron Corporation http://www.chaeron.com
