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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wave-of-the-future dept.

Erik Sliman writes "Why are all the IT companies suddenly interested in open standards with web services? An OpenStandards.net article explores the issues surrounding the somewhat vague term."

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  1. Becuase of Stupidity of course by Telastyn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's becoming more and more common that the "Internet" is just Internet Explorer to most people. So some smart fellow thinks it'd be a grand idea if services could be served this way, to appease the lowest common denominator. PHB's get ahold of it, and wham! off it goes to the media, and in 2-3 years everyone (hopefully) realises what a bad idea it was.

    If you want a unified 'client' for all services, make one, don't kludge everything onto http. Please...

  2. Shameless Self-Promotion by cybermage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey Erik, nice ad:

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  3. Re:Marketing Hype = More $$$ by rylos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree that the hype is heavy for Web Services. However, I do see benefits for using Web Services.

    Making Web Services work in a useful way sometimes takes some creativity. Take Google as an example. With the recent release of the Google API, I was able to use PHP and SOAP to access their search results. One of the methods offered through the service is spell checking. By integrating this spell checking with my company's internal search engine, I now have the ability to make search term suggestions to users. This functionality would be very difficult to provide if it had to be created from scratch.

    Web Services will NOT work for all things and in all situations, but they WILL work for some things and in some situations. Creativity is the key.