+1 Christopher Ferris Architect, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com phone: +1 508 234 3624 David W. Levine wrote on 08/20/2002 03:05:18 PM: > > At 02:48 PM 8/20/2002 -0400, Mark Baker wrote: > > >That's ok too, but it doesn't achieve what I want to achieve; > >documenting the *differences*. > > > >Is that so controversial? > > > >We could even call it "Integrating WSA with Web Architecture", just to > >make reference to our charter. > > > >MB > > > Just to be difficult.. Well, no, actually, not just to be difficult. > > One of the problems implicit in doing some of this is that what one really > ought to be doing is comparing against a skinned down version of Roy's thesis, > extended and reanalyzed for issues beyond hypertext. A huge chunk of the work > is relevant, but a lot of the contentious interactions occur because everyone > has a different perception on what's different about "web services" as > opposed to > simply accessing "hypertextish" resources. Drawing out the differences is > only possible > when you have well documented things your are comparing, and good agreement > on what > those things are. Roy's thesis is far from a tabula rasa, but people draw > rather varying picture out of it. > > - David > > > >On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:30:40AM -0700, Francis McCabe wrote: > > > Rather than a section on standard orthodoxies and heresies, it may be > > > better to have a section that highlights the `input base' ideas that the > > > WSA draws from. That way, you can point out the inheritances from REST, > > > OMA etc. in a way that isn't threatening. > > > >MB > >-- > >Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) > >Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org > >http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com > > David W. Levine > IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center > Autonomic Computing Tooling and Standards >Received on Tuesday, 20 August 2002 15:38:48 GMT
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