Not surprisingly, peace has not broken out in the ongoing dispute over web services specifications described in my last post. The continuing attacks on the WS-* family of specifications by advocates of simply using HTTP and XML together somehow reminds me of a bicycle company positioning their products against those of an armored truck manufacturer: "It's more agile in traffic, it gets an...
It's as regular as the seasons: as the leaves start to fall from the trees here in Michigan, more web services specifications flutter down from WS-IvoryTower, and more hunters take up their rhetorical shotguns to blast at them. This year it is WS-Transfer and WS-Enumeration , Microsoft has a new web services architecture vision
document to accommodate them , and a number of people (Tim Bray...
