Where's the simplicity in Web services?

Hardly a surprise: (I am not talking about REST here)

This is hardly a surprise. The 'simplicity' ploy was nothing but marketing and hype. Any reasonably intelligent person would quickly see that the Web Services are nothing new. It is by large, a copy of CORBA.

To support similar infrastructure as CORBA does, WebServices will be equally complex and have the same interoperability problems. On top of that, it is a very immature technology.

The hype that XML will make it better does not make any sense. XML has nothing that would make basic infrastructures like security obsolete. And in reality, the XML that is passed in SOAP messages are not any more human readable than ancient hieroglyphs to a commoner.; Posted by: tero_t_vaananen@... Posted on: 10/05/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Hardly a surprise tero_t_vaananen@... | 10/05/04

Drink the Koolaid Roger Ramjet | 10/05/04

Did you leave any? seosamh_z | 10/05/04

Wait a minute rapson | 10/05/04

But seosamh_z | 10/05/04

Heading for the other side Peter Komisar | 10/05/04

Why? seosamh_z | 10/05/04

New technology??? jorwell | 10/06/04

Let Me Calculate This ParadigmOdyssey | 10/05/04

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