The problem is they don't listen. How many times did Smed reply to either of his open letters (the one after CU or this one for the NGE)? They gave the players no evidence that they were reading all of our concerns. So the "constructive dialogue" was one way and falling on deaf ears.
I think the author has bought into the "Web Services!" hype and seriously over-estimates the problems in creating them.
Actually, Apache already has an XML "Web Service" framework in place - Cocoon. It seems to be pushed more as an HTML content server, but it can serve up XML just as easily.
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The problem is they don't listen. How many times did Smed reply to either of his open letters (the one after CU or this one for the NGE)? They gave the players no evidence that they were reading all of our concerns. So the "constructive dialogue" was one way and falling on deaf ears.
I think the author has bought into the "Web Services!" hype and seriously over-estimates the problems in creating them.
Actually, Apache already has an XML "Web Service" framework in place - Cocoon. It seems to be pushed more as an HTML content server, but it can serve up XML just as easily.