SDForum comments
This is quite interesting.
“WS-Vertigo” nicely sums up the sad state of current affairs.
Also a nice synopsis of current leading edge, competing (emerging/hope-to-be) standards like WS-Notification vs. WS-Eventing.
Some juicy bits:
BPEL vs. WS-CDL: BPEL is moving slowly at OASIS and facing philosophical difficulties; people think BPEL is wonderful, except those working on it! WS-CDL is at W3C.
and
Q: M.R. Pamidi: Are BPEL and WS-CDL complementary rather than competing, with CDL doing orchestration? Anne: BPEL will get out of hand when you start adding more than one business entity. CDL specializes in that upper level. Not a big fan of BPEL because it has the wrong model.
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Customers were gravitating towards XML Signature and XML Encryption, but not so much today because PKI management is so difficult — the standards were way ahead of implementation.
and on inhibitors to Web Services adoption
Ed: Most of the specs are wire-level protocols. These need to be used by apps. The complex protocols have complex low-level APIs for using them, which is an inhibitor. You want to be able to exploit the low-level features, but it’s difficult. Indigo will likely help, and BEA has some things coming that will help too.
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Ed: To get into production today, you still need to build glue code. SIs and consultants are finding this a boon. As an industry, we need to make all this easier to do. Customers still have to invest a large amount of effort, which is not how we envisioned web services.
More interesting comments on BPEL (though not surprising) among other things.
