Bill de hÓra maintains a RSS feed on Web service specifications. Why do we need an RSS feed for specifications?
The specification-proliferation may have something to do with it.
Bill goes on to call it a 'cargo-cult' in another weblog entry.
Don Box puts it even more bluntly ('standards are like bodily orifices.'- though he later refutes it).
To this I say: yes, there are a lot of specifications out there! And you'll probably see a few more over the rest of the year. While some of them will fall by the wayside (as a lot of good-intentioned technologies do), and others are more of 'technical position papers' and/or posturing (from competing standards for simple things like SOAP attachments to more complex WS composition standards), I do not believe that this is a cargo cult. These standards are out there to solve real world problems- EAI for instance (and EAI *is* a very complex).
Posted by vivek at April 9, 2004 01:16 PM | TrackBack