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October 17, 2007 | 
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"Or is it? Maybe you don't work for or with a Global 2000 company, so I'll let you in on a little secret: They Can't Hear You! That's right, the CIOs, and Enterprise Architechts, and, yes, even the journeyman programmer employed by these firms have no idea that there's even a discussion going on. I've asked them. I really have. It's what I do for a living. And the typical corporate technologist (broad strokes here, of course I don't mean you) hasn't considered REST and decided against it, they haven't even heard the term."
That was in part, in response to this which Pete describes as a victory post. So let's be clear on this - 'victory' here is nothing more than seeing that WS-* are quarantined. The recent hype around REST is inevitable - hype is how parts of the software industry function - but that was never the point of arguing down WS-*.
"No, they honestly believe SOAP, SOA, and the WS-Framework is the best way to build and architect distributed systems. And they're smart people too; my SOA-preaching colleagues at Burton Group are scary smart."
Of course they are. There's no shortage of smart people digging the wrong hole really well. But give it some time -
“Do they have REST? Check.” - is already starting to happen.
Languishing as a draft since 2007-07-31
October 17, 2007 07:10 PM