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Understanding the Real Costs of Integration. In another excellent ZapFlash, Ronald Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg take a stab at explaining what I've come to believe may be the most important issue surrounding web services. "...blindly applying Web Services to integration is a mistake...just because a new technology has promise doesn't guarantee that it will be applied correctly." They go on to ask, "Are implementations of Web Services simply 'old wine in new bottles,' with interfaces every bit as brittle and tightly-coupled as in the past, or are they really implementing Service-Oriented Integration among Services at many levels of granularity?"
It's been my experience to date, when helping clients develop their web-services strategies, that the greatest obstacle is getting developers and architects to truly understand what loose coupling is all about. It's elusive, but an absolutely critical concept.
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:26:25 AM 
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