On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 16:03, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Johan Vromans wrote: > > Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>Did I miss any other points? Any opinions? > > > > > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-13-009-20-OP > > I hope you meant that as a joke. Fotango.com, where Leon works, has a > whole system built on web services in Perl: http://opensource.fotango.com/ > > Here's an amusing article that makes fun of web services: > http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/0205/1554.html > > Here's a less funny one about how companies are realizing that most of > them have no use for web services: > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/25/020725hnwebstall.xml > > If web services are the killer app of J2EE (or .NET), we can all breathe > easy. Even if you happen to have a use for them, Perl is already better > at web services than most of the competition. > > The breathless tone of that Linux Today article makes it sound like > there is something technically difficult about web services and > Microsoft is beating us to it. It's really just fetching a URL and > parsing some XML data. No sweat.
I couldn't agree more. Thanks for the article links. Aaron Johnson > > - Perrin > >
