InfoWorld: Web services maturity, benefits emphasized quotes Bob Sutor, IBM director of Web services technology:
Web services is a maturing technology and IT shops need to recognize its benefits now, rather than holding off until ongoing standardization efforts conclude… Web services is no longer a brand new technology and that Web services need to be brought into the “ecosystem.”
Microsoft’s Don Box (in SOAP author says enough specs already) comes up with four tips for developers:
Read fewer specifications, write more applications, write less code by using tools that generate code automatically, and remember that humans matter, so if you must write a specification, make it legible…
XML is by now “pretty stable,” Box said, and “the Holy Trinity” of Web services — meaning SOAP, WSDL and UDDI — are “complete enough for most developers to use.”
