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On Dec 18, 2003, at 8:52 PM, Chiusano Joseph wrote: > I must admit that I was curiously puzzled by Adam Bosworth's XML 2003 > address in which he emphasized the need for us to return to simplicity > regarding the current wave of existing/emerging Web Services standards. > Was anyone else? Given that BEA is an author/co-author of many of these > emerging specs [1] (WS-Coordination/Transaction, WS-Acknowledgement, > etc.), there appears to be a dichotomy here. Or is there? > > I was there, and have wondered about this. I suspect that Bosworth is calling it as he sees it, perhaps realizing that frankness about truths that will soon be obvious to everyone is the best route to credibility. [1] Anyway, "simplicity" is now apparently part of BEA's marketing message. See http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=pr01192.htm&FP=/content/ news_events/press_releases/2003 "BEA agrees with our customers that infrastructure shouldn’t be as difficult to manage as it currently is today, and that standards are a means to helping reduce that complexity." Not that this promises the "SOAP cookie" that Bosworth said their customers really want in their heart of hearts :-) [1] I get a lot of feedback that various permutations of a "there's ain't no such thing as magic, and we don't try to sell it to you" slide/speech that I often slip into presentations helps give credibility to the other stuff I say.
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