- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:55:14 -0500
- To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
- Cc: "Stephane Fellah" <fellah@pcigeomatics.com>
>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:22:13 -0400 >From: "Stephane Fellah" <fellah@pcigeomatics.com> >. . . >The current trend in web services arena defines the web >services using different standards based on XML schemas (UDDI, >ebXML,WSDL, SOAP, SAML,XXX,XXXX...). >IMHO, the huge number of XML schemas to deal with, makes the >integration of existing web services very hard, costly, very >brittle and hard to evolve. . . . And those standards are just the tip of the iceberg when you consider that *each* WSDL document typically defines yet another XML schema. In essence, each WSDL document defines a little "language" for interacting with that particular Web service. FYI, I've been referring to this proliferation of languages as "babelization"[1]. 1. http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/0929-semweb-dbooth/slide16-0.html -- David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
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