Disclaimer: I worked at http://www.layer7tech.com/ for six years so I have a fair bit of déformation professionelle.
<rant target="urn:noOneInParticular"> While I wholeheartedly agree that SOAP, WSDL, WS-* and the whole mainstream SOA stack, as it's currently broadly defined and implemented, is ugly and verbose and redundant and regrettable, I'll posit that it is currently the *only* game in town that **meets all of the requirements** that drove its creation: * Vendor- and platform-neutral * Standards-based * Business semantics decoupled from transport * Supports message-level security (allowing decoupling from transport and business semantics) * Declarative service publishing and discovery, and automatic RPC/OO-style stub generation * ... and many more requirements that you, personally, may not ever feel the need for. But a lot of companies actually do need a significant subset of these requirements on a significant subset of their projects, and there is certainly a great deal of value in having a global, IT-industry-wide consensus (even among bitter competitors, which was never the case previously) on a set of technologies, standards and practices that actually do meet those requirements. </rant> :) -0xe1a --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
