I stumbled across this article on developerWorks today. It describes all of the roles on a project team that developers web services and service-oriented architectures.
Skimming over the article, it looks like it should have been titled «It takes a village to write a Web Service».
Someone must have opened pandora's box since I last looked into web services...
Re:How is this a surprise?
ziggy on 2004-01-21T19:11:17
Don't get me wrong. Web Services were overcomplicated to begin with. But this kicks it up about an order of magnitude.It's difficult to manage that kind of complexification -- even for IBM and Microsoft. Either that, or I've grossly underestimated their ability to complexify something as trivial as IPC.
Re:How is this a surprise?
chromatic on 2004-01-21T20:53:31
Anything that starts off with "First, let's talk a little bit about XML..." should warn you. If the phrase "distributed systems" follows anywhere, run.
Re:How is this a surprise?
hfb on 2004-01-21T21:55:11
and don't forget the awful "Three-tiered enterprise solution...":) Re:How is this a surprise?
chromatic on 2004-01-23T21:33:57
I'm certain there's something between those double quotes, but my brain refuses to read it. Mind you, this is not a complaint.
Re:How is this a surprise?
jhi on 2004-01-22T19:04:07
Similarly to
Peace is not in the interest of the military-industrial complex.
also
Simplicity is not in the interest of software companies.
(I just made up both quotes. Sure sign of pretentiousness.)
