To add fuel to the David (Webber) vs. Goliaths (Microsoft, IBM) story, I'll
relay a comment I heard at the CIO Council at FOSE. When I asked why they
haven't fully blessed SOA and WS, one CIO reply was "because I still can't
implement a "working" distributed WS if one application is running under
.NET and the other is running under J2EE".
I'm not sure we can achieve this, but I hope our team can develop a
"roadmap" toward a unified set set of standards or, at least, a friendly
co-existence.
Regards......Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "David RR Webber" <>
To: "Chiusano Joseph" <>;
<>; <>; "ebSOA"
<>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:43 PM
Subject: [ebsoa] Re: [regrep] Did ebXML Help Accelerate the Web Services
Evolution?
> Joe,
>
> You remind me of Nelson on the deck of the Victory at the
> Battle of the Nile - "I see no ships!" (looking with his
> blind-eye through his telescope)....
>
> Web services is not even close to being finished yet - and
> a whole chunk of it is futilely recreating ebXML functionality,
> but from an unsustainable model - to wit - WSDL.
>
> Let's be clear here - Bob Sutor's decision was deterimental
> to everything and driven by his own self-interest - and by
> Microsoft and IBM thinking they could get there first.
>
> Well they did not, and they have merely succeeded in
> confusing the marketplace and adding much wasted time
> to the whole process - including mine in typing this and
> yours in reading it. Customers would already be buying
> consistent ebSOA were it not for their confusion caused
> by web service FUD.
>
> I'm throughly disinterested in the web service fraternity
> continued efforts to re-write history and make like today
> they have everything working better than ebXML.
>
> First it was 'web services is simpler than ebXML - which
> is too complicated". Now its - 'web services are more
> complete than ebXML - which is only limited and old'.
>
> Fact is - ebXML is well suited to its mission profile and
> therefore is coherent and consistent. And like any
> great technology - ebXML is evolving, maturing and
> growing. Web services are anything but - fragmented,
> dispersed and subject to proprietary whims - so what
> did web services learn from ebXML? Frankly very little.
>
> Cheers, DW.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chiusano Joseph" <>
> To: <>; <>; "ebSOA"
> <>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:31 PM
> Subject: [regrep] Did ebXML Help Accelerate the Web Services Evolution?
>
>
> > I'm in a bit of a "controversial" (tongue-in-cheek) mood today, so I
> > thought I'd through this out and see what comes back. My thoughts are
> > spurred by a book on that I am currently reading. Please note as you
> > read this that I am in a position in which I am vendor neutral.
> >
> > 3 years ago, when the first phase of ebXML was getting ready to wind
> > down, I was a mere observer on various listservs, so I don't have the
> > perspective of someone who was in the throws of things. However, I've
> > been thinking: Did ebXML Help Accelerate the Web Services Evolution?
> >
> > More specifically: I understand that there was a "schism" of sorts at
> > one point (exactly when I am not sure) in which several major vendors
> > pulled out of ebXML. These vendors happen to be those that are
> > considered to be the driving forces behind Web Services (by this I mean
> > the "SOAP/WSDL/UDDI"). Web Services.
> >
> > I wonder - if this "schism" did not take place (assuming that it indeed
> > did), would Web Services have taken off as quickly as they did? Did this
> > "schism" give more motivation to these vendors to evolve the "base" Web
> > Services standards as quickly as they were evolved? What if these
> > vendors had not pulled out of ebXML? What would the landscape look like
> > now?
> >
> > Thoughts? Comments?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Joe Chiusano
> >
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