[DotGNU]Web Services: It's So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work

[Bill Lance]

Here is an interesting and informative article on Web
Services at:

http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/10/03/webservices.html


There is a pointer in there to www.xmethods.com
that list many existing WebServices.  They use a
variety of servers.  How does dotgnu assimilate this
stuff?


One quote from the article gets right at one of my own
major questions about the whole WebService idea.

"In contrast to the presentation of public and
universally interoperable services, Web Services are
actually best at automating private, previously
negotiated conversations. The idea of unknown but
perfectly described capabilities existing out there in
the cloud -- at once unfamiliar enough to need to be
discovered, tailored and reliable enough to build a
business on, and not so critical that they need to be
hosted locally -- describes a small and fairly trivial
set of possible services. The ASP business ran aground
on this issue, and there is no sign that the Web
Services solution will work any better."



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