Bingo. And remember how much they cried when "meanies" IBM and Microsoft wouldn't let them join the WS-I board? Oh, they were all about Web Services in 2003 when they were complaining to the press how badly they wanted to be about Web Services Interop. But now that they haven't emerged as the top dog in the space, they're playing Ruby and REST for all its worth 'cause IBM and Microsoft aren't there. Now Web Services is the devil. Revisionist history?
Let's keep things balanced. Use REST. Use SOAP. Use UPS. Do SOA. Live happy. Focus on the important things in life. Ron --- In service-orientated-architecture@yahoogroups.com, Michael Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sun Micr. announced SOAP Web Services with fanfares in 2001 but was quite behind the evolution of this puppy all followed years. So, it was logical for them to declare finally that the 'dog' was dead since they could not domesticate it... > - Michael > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: rschmelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: service-orientated-architecture@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:14:56 PM > Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: A RESTafarian who eschews the use of SOAP > > > My desk clock says it's 1998. Did I not set it properly? Is Clinton > still president? Is gas still $1.20 a gallon? Is the housing market > still on a tear? Are we not fighting any wars? > > Oh sorry, did I open the wrong pandora's box? > Have a great weekend! > Ron > > --- In service-orientated- architecture@ yahoogroups. com, "John Evdemon" > <jevdemon@ .> wrote: > > > > On 25 Jul 2008 at 12:05, Gervas Douglas wrote: > > > > > The SOAP stack for Web services was branded a failure this week by > > > Tim Bray, a Sun Microsystems technologist and co-inventor of XML, who > > > hailed the REST (Representational State Transfer) mechanism as a SOAP > > > alternative. > > > > What year is this again? Do people still get religious about SOAP > vs. REST and which > > programming language is "cooler"? > > > > One size doesn't fit all - use what best meets your customer's needs > and be done with it. > > >
