A thought about Web Services
Ever since the days of DCOM and RPC people have been trying to make seperate machines “appear” as though they belong to the same memory space. Enlisting mulitple machines in the execution of a piece of code in a manner that blurs machine demarkations and location. That sort of thing. Web Services is a continuation of that concept. So is SOA. But I have yet to see anything in these realms come to full fruition. There was a time when MS would have you believe UDDI would list innumerable web services for public consumption. As Dr. Phil would say “And how is that working for you” ? I haven’t seen it yet. We are on the right track with SOA but we have a very long way to go. In the meantime its really tough to seperate the marketing and hype from reality.
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