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XML Web Services: Means to an End

Posted by michael on from the not-over-until-the-closing-tag-sings dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For the second day in a row at the XML Web Services One conference here, a keynote speaker got up and signaled the impending end to the Web services era, at least on a standards level. Don Box, an architect in Microsoft Corp.'s developer division told an audience of Web services conference attendees Wednesday: 'The end of the XML Web services era is near. I predict two years from now we won't have this conference.'"

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  1. More precisely... by __aaanwh8370 · · Score: 5, Informative

    He says that the era of producing the standards is coming to an end, not the usage of the services himself...

    to quote:

    Box said XML Web services are a means to an end. "We have to get the plumbing sorted out," he said. "We have a couple more years of plumbing work, but after that we move on to applications," he said. Box said the "protocol work is starting to wind down, the infrastructure is catching up with protocols and it's time to start thinking about applications."

  2. I agree, web services is over by tzanger · · Score: 4, Informative

    XWT is the way to go these days. OS-agnostic, clear and simple separation of UI and business logic and totally, wholly extensible. I love this software.

    1. Re:I agree, web services is over by broody · · Score: 2, Informative

      ...and slow as molasses.

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      ~~ What's stopping you?