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On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 12:25, Francis Norton wrote: > Is the success or the failure of Web Services that you fear more? Neither. It's the continuing insistence on XML being primarily/solely a tool for program-to-program communication, and the seemingly endless pileup of programming concepts (data types, OOP, etc.) that just keep encrusting what used to be a small and very useful approrach to exchanging information as text. SOAP can do what it does, but I have to admit that at this point I wish it's creators had fixated on ASN.1, since Web Services now utterly dominates notions of "what XML is good for". I have no qualms about blaming Steve Ballmer & fellows for that. To me, that's powerful poison for the ongoing development of a technology (XML) which is good for much more. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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