Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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<E-Business*Standards Weekly Wire/> Weekly Wire. Yes, the title includes the XML angle brackets and slash. (What a pain to make it render in HTML. :-)) E-Business*Standards*Today, published by Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA), provides a daily update on the latest developments in e-business standards, from a variety of news sources. It's a good way to learn about progress on industry-specific XML standards. Free subscription form at the bottom of the page.
Posted Friday, March 08, 2002 9:24:01 PM 
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Frictionless Discovery. According to the hype, UDDI directory services will allow your systems to automatically switch from the web services of one vendor to another. Have you studied UDDI? It doesn't come close to supporting such flexibility. As Brent Sleeper at The Stencil Group wrote back in July, 2001, "Although much of the published enthusiasm for web services seems focused on a utopia of frictionless discovery of trading partners and minimal switching costs among programmatic connections, corporate IT users know this vision is a long, long way off."
Intel's Chief e-strategist, Christopher Thomas believes this "second step of web services is three to four [years off]." It's one thing to discover that a service exists (even that remains a manual process with UDDI), but unless all of the competing service providers adopt identical SOAP interfaces, you've still got to code for each one. Perhaps this will be an interim role for web service networks like Grand Central and Flamenco--providing a single interface to comparable but non-identical web services.
Posted Friday, March 08, 2002 9:16:32 AM
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