- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:25:16 -0500
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:38:27AM -0800, David Orchard wrote: > The question from a Web services perspective, is does this same optimization > make sense? Do we have programs that already have prebuilt "method"s, or > even a default method, and we simply have to punch in new addresses? I > don't think so. It's not "Do we have ... ", Dave, since obviously our legacy enterprise systems don't; they have custom interfaces. The question should be "*Can* we have ...". And by that I don't mean can we rewrite our existing software, I mean can we "wrap" that software with other software that presents a uniform interface to its data and behaviour? The answer to that is, for the vast majority of applications, yes. MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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