Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Web Services: Asset or Expense? "If you wrap your legacy apps in web services, you can leave them there for a very long time," according to Flashline CEO and founder Charles Stack. IT professionals know that legacy code (sometimes unfortunately) lasts 15 years or longer, but good luck convincing your CFO to amortize the investment for more than a few years--even in good economic times. [Source: ADTmag.com]
Posted Monday, March 31, 2003 12:43:41 PM 
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SOAP is Too Slow? "We have been trying to compare how inefficient it is. It had a throughput of seven times less than another comparable method, which is based on CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)...SOAP, being based on XML, is fairly inefficient...You have to send a lot of data to communicate your point - more than you would using other techniques." The report was authored by student Christopher Kohlhoff and UTS senior lecturer Robert Steele. [Source: Australian IT]
C'mon, guys. That's like telling us that airplanes are faster than automobiles. CORBA and web services don't address the same problems.
Posted Monday, March 31, 2003 10:06:06 AM
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Chappell Loves WS-Security. David Chappell thinks, "It's hard to imagine how the people who defined WS-Security could have done a better job in solving this problem."
"The lack of good SOAP-based security mechanisms has had two main impacts. One is that firms tend to use Web services in situations where less-secure communication is acceptable, such as integrating apps inside the firewall. The other is that various less-than-ideal workarounds have been found to make communication with SOAP more secure." [Source: ADTmag.com]
Posted Monday, March 31, 2003 9:53:04 AM
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