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CORBA, Web Services, Indigo, XML, service-orientation, etc.

2004-10-03

In case you haven't been following these interesting discussions, here are some links (in no particular order and with more links in the posts)...

Tim Ewald on "State of Web Services" and a follow on, on REST, and then on CORBA and WS and more WS.
Ted Neward comments on Don's and Steve's posts.
Don Box on CORBA and programming models and Indigo (post 1 and post 2).
Steve Vinoski on what CORBA got wrong.

It's been really interesting to see the discussion evolving.

I couldn't agree more with the following comment from Steve's post...

A reduction in the need for shared details and a focus on the message is what modern service orientation brings to the picture. And no, it isn't a reinvention of the wheel; rather, it's simply a case of learning from the past and improving on it.

One response to “CORBA, Web Services, Indigo, XML, service-orientation, etc.”

Mark Little

2004-10-03

Ditto on the agreement front. Modern SOAs (which actually predate WS) definitely learnt from history: keeping what was good and fixing what was bad about other distributed systems. Concentrating on the message (and with suitable tool support too) helps to remove any higher level implementation specific details; what’s at the back end receiving the message isn’t important to the WS architecture. But as we’ve discussed here before, it’s often too easy to stray from the path and return to the “good old days” 🙁 The other thing that Steve, Don and Michi do agree on, which we’ve touched on here too, is that the success of WS (not specifically SOA) is down to politics as much as SOA.