- From: Champion, Mike <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:08:50 -0600
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:18 AM > To: Anne Thomas Manes > Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org; mark.baker@sympatico.ca > Subject: Re: WSA constraints > > [not wearing co-chair hat] > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:57:42PM -0400, Anne Thomas Manes wrote: > > The Web has many similarities to an SOA, but as I said, > it's oriented for > > human consumption rather than machine consumption. > > Ah, that again. Ya know, we've really got to get past that. We will when someone responds effectively to the rest of Anne's point that you didn't quote: "An SOA requires that a service be defined by a contract. The Web has no such constraint. (HTTP GET tells an application how to get a resource, but not how to use it once it has it.)"
Received on Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:09:26 UTC