In order to attend the W3C Workshop on Web of Services For Enterprise Computing, you have to submit a position paper. I got mine in at the 11th hour, and it’s just been posted: Targeting the Enterprise means Ignoring the World. If you’ve already read Nick Gall’s position, there’s no real reason to read mine, as it makes the same point using all new words. The upshot is: why should the world wide web consortium be concerned with enterprise integration headaches?
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Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff | 20-Feb-07 at 5:59 pm | Permalink
Targeting the Enterprise Means Ignoring the World…
Once I have some time I need to do a simple app that reads Pete Lacey’s feed and simply posts a new item here every time he writes something. Should be doable with a few lines of code, and would be a nice demo of Atom/APP features … Anyway,…
Eric Newcomer | 21-Feb-07 at 12:57 pm | Permalink
Pete -
The answer is very simple, it’s because the W3C membership has expressed sufficient interest in the topic to justify a workshop.
It may well turn out that the results of the workshop will not lead to any follow up action by the W3C, but sufficient interest was expressed to dig into the topic further.
Also a minor correction: the workshop is not about enterprise integration.
Thanks again for your participation.
Eric
Pete | 21-Feb-07 at 1:31 pm | Permalink
Eric: I’m cool with enterprises looking to the W3C for guidance on the issues they face. But I think the guidance should be to stop using SOAP/WS-*. One way for the W3C to go about this is to recognize that WS-* is just the latest incarnation of a technology that has so far never been able to span even the enterprise. And that the technology necessary to span the enterprise should be largely similar to the technology that spans the globe.
From the workshop page:
How is that not integration?