Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Ten Emerging Best Practices For Building SOAs. In the February 25 issue of ZapFlash, Jason Bloomberg gives his recommendations " to leverage the power and flexibility of Web Services strategically across the enterprise." One of my favorites:
The enterprise application story of the 1990s was all about suites. Buying a few large packages with several tightly integrated modules made more sense than going with a best-of-breed, "mix and match" approach, so the argument went, because integrating products from multiple vendors was such a nightmare. Web Services and SOAs reverse this argument, because Web Services can reduce the cost of integration to the point that best-of-breed approaches make solid economic sense.
And another of which Jason was the earliest champion:
One of the holy grails of software development is code reuse. In an SOA, developers should construct the Services to be as simple as possible, where they continually refactor them so that they are as broadly applicable as is practical. The resulting services are then reusable at runtime-nuggets of software functionality (both fine- and coarse-grained) that can be used in a variety of situations, as contrasted to typical code reuse, which is a design time principle.
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:17:27 PM 
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Now What? Dave Winer asks, "You did say that, there was a UN Security Council resolution, the vote was unanimous, not vetoed by France, Russia or China. Okay he didn't disarm. Now what?"
Ted Kennedy had the right idea on a CNBC interview. So long as we're making progress with inspections [no matter how slowly, IMHO] we should stick with that process. Even if it takes forever. What's the hurry? We could multiply the number of inspectors by 10x or 100x. Iraq isn't able to add to its weaponry so long as the U.N. is in there. The cost of inspectors (in dollars, lives, and worldwide public opinion) is trivial compared to the deployment of more than 200,000 U.S. troops.
In the past few decades we've learned a lot about negotiating with fanatics of all kinds. We've learned, for example, that we can wait them out rather than escalate situations. Unless they take and threaten hostages, it's better to outlast them than to attack them.
I agree that something must be done, but the Bush administration sees war as its only solution.
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:02:37 AM
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Don Box: Too Many Specs. The co-inventor of SOAP (now a Microsoft engineer) had harsh words this week for vendors contributing to the plethora of web-services specifications, and advised developers to read less of them and get on with writing applications.
Also from the XML Web Services One conference, Anne Thomas Manes, now with the Burton Group, said that upcoming specifications like WS-Security, being hammered out by Microsoft, IBM and Verisign Inc., will be useful for some, but in the meantime the existing SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) security standard "solves 80 percent" of security needs for Web services. [Source: ITWorld.com]
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:42:19 AM
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