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February 12, 2002
SOAP implementations Sam comments on
SOAP implementations
Sam comments on my note about there being over 80 different SOAP implementations. Obviously there are far less that are actually being used. And Interop is a great thing and necessary to make sure the different implementations all work together. One of the most interesting things I did last year was write a Cocoon frontend for the Las Vegas interop example. Gave me a chance to hang out on the soapbuilders list on Yahoo - which provided great insight.
The thing I fear as web services make it into corporate heads and networks is that it is still not clear enough what web services actually are and what it means to implement them. Decision makers are running around (slowly getting up to speed) and demanding web services. Not that they really understand much about Interop or anything else (after all why should they). On the other hand they are being led to believe that "there are no problems" (see my earlier posting today).
Posted by Matthew at February 12, 2002 04:48 PM