Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Catching Up on My Reading. There's so much being written about web services, I'm convinced you could read for 40 hours a week just trying to keep up. But I've managed to get through a huge pile over the past few days. Some of the best writing I've encountered comes from The Stencil Group, which I mentioned a few days ago. One favorite issue is by Brent Sleeper from July 15, 2001., and not just because I used to play Mille Bornes. Not part of the series, and harder to find on their web site, is a lengthier 12-page whitepaper written by Bill Robbins, entitled How Web Services Wil Beat the "New New Thing" Rap. Some first-rate thinking and analysis there.
Another great resource is the Web Services Zone of IBM's developerWorks site. Catalysts for fee-based Web services is the latest (and best) in a series by Dan Gisolfi, an excellent writer.
Posted Saturday, March 09, 2002 5:54:28 PM 
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Reality from the Front Lines. A friend and client, in the middle of a web services implementation, has this to say (edited):
We're in the middle of SOAP, and at this point, I'll
vote "not ready for prime time," at least on the Java side. XML is
just a huge mess. JAXP, Xalan, Xerces, Crimson, SOAP,
Xmlparserv2. Everything requires something else; this can't work with that; you must
have version x.x.x of A to work with B, but of course, that won't
work if you're using C. The general consensus [among deeply involved developers] is that SOAP is a technology to watch, but not many people are willing to tackle it yet. This is one instance where having a single entity like Microsoft
around to put together a logical and functional set of parts would make
for a better and more effective developer experience. [On the non-Microsoft side] we've got Sun, Apache, IBM, Oracle and others all trying to come up with the right
"solution." But right now, it's a mess of interoperability. Sun is
trying to address this very problem with their XML bundle and Java Web
Services Pack. Let's hope it works.
Posted Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:30:54 AM
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