Re: [xml-dev] Web Services/SOA (was RE: [xml-dev] XML 2004 weblog items?)

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Rich Salz <>
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Mark Baker <>
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2004-12-01T16:43:33Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Web Services/SOA (was RE: [xml-dev] XML 2004 weblog items?)
> Many prominent folks have said that CORBA is SOA.  For example;
> 
> http://www4.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.3586.s.8.jsp
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,0,1220548,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
> http://www.service-architecture.com/web-services/articles/service-oriented_architecture_soa_definition.html
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/message/1386
> http://www.capeclear.com/clear_thinking_soa.shtml

Wow.  I'm impressed and depressed.  When you posted the set of links I 
thought to myself "he must be reading it wrong."  Nope.

I claim all those folks are confusing client-server with service-oriented.

> Practically all the Web services I've seen deployed on the Internet
> (via xmethods.net) is RPC too.

So what?

	/r$

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