An Excellent Post

There is an excellent post on Loosely Coupled that I suggest everyone read. It highlights one of the afflictions of our times. Software standard organizations are typically inventing standards rather than ratifying and cleaning them up. This is like a bunch of food critics writing a cook book without ever actually trying out the recipes they invent. They have domain expertise, but lots of things aren't thought through, are over designed, or just plain are too hard. Bravo to Loosely Coupled and Tim Bray.

(Via Adam Bosworth's Weblog.)

Got to love a post that calls out UDDI and the WS-* crap as the junk that it really is. From the linked article "Does anyone still believe that web services will be published and consumed indiscriminately on the open Internet?" Heh, heh, I just have to ask why did anyone ever believe that in the first place? Business is driven by contracts and contracts aren't negotiated by machines. Sometimes it seems the tech world is just subject to mass hysteria.

Posted by Kimbro Staken

Friday Nov 12, 2004 at 5:11 PM