| Title: |
Building Web Services - The Future |
| Author: |
Jonathan Stephenson |
| Publication Date: |
11 June 2003 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Roadmap Report |
| Abstract: |
Looking Beyond Components and Objects - It may come as a shock to read in this journal that components and objects may not necessarily be the best future development platform for services. In this report we think the unthinkable and challenge conventional wisdom.
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| Backgrounder: |
XML has become the lingua franca of business integration and application development. Web services is a recent example of the inexorable march of XML into all aspects of corporate IT but despite the fact that we may describe data using XML schema, and transport it as SOAP, developers insist of converting it back to binary object format when ever they need to process it. This is neither logical nor efficient.
It may come as a shock to read in the CBDI Journal that components and objects may not necessarily be the best future development platform for services. Today we have little choice but to build components using Java and .NET and then to expose their services through SOAP URIs. In this report we will think the unthinkable and challenge this assumption. We start by looking at how end-to-end XML could work, the problems and inconsistencies inherent with the current deployment platform and then investigate the alternative vision heralded by the Water platform and the rumored X# language.
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