- From: Jon Dart <jdart@tibco.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 12:28:10 -0700
- To: Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
- CC: www-ws-arch@w3.org
You could argue that CORBA + IIOP was trying to do very much what web services now do - provide distributed services in a vendor-neutral and interoperable framework. IMO what distinguishes what we usually think of as web services from other distributed services is that they have a non-opaque standard message format and a more common standardized protocol. Which makes interoperability much easier to accomplish. Whether this is an essential distinction can be debated. --Jon Ugo Corda wrote: >>This possibly wouldn't even exclude something like CORBA, at least in >>its modern incarnation that supports IIOP. > > > But this is exactly what I think we should avoid, i.e. provide a definition of Web services such that pretty much anything satisfies the definition (making the term itself meaningless - or at least uninteresting - as a consequence). > > Ugo > >
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