Re: What is a Version?

May I as a practitioner provide some input on this topic from a "Web Services" perspective?

As you probably have noted operating systems are updated at ever increasing speed.  The same goes for applications.

This (IMO) calls for a more dynamic (adaptable) versioning concept where the requester interrogates (through a discovery service) the target service to figure out if they actually are compatible. If this is the case the requester creates a request adapted for the service.

This arrangement makes it possible to selectively add (or even revise) elements to an already defined object without necessarily creating a new version.


My conclusion (FWIW): there will likely be multiple solutions to versioning.

Anders

Received on Saturday, 14 March 2026 07:43:20 UTC