Re: Article: Fat protocols slow Web services from Francis Norton on 2002-01-10 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from January 2002)

From: Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:47:14 +0000
To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
CC: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C3D9B62.5020905@redrice.com>

Hi Mike,

Champion, Mike wrote:
 >
 > Would anyone seriously disagree that the current generation of
 > SOAP-based technologies is a much easier "sell" for application
 > integration behind the firewall than it is for wide deployment over
 >  the internet? Or am I missing the point here entirely?
 >
I've been doing pc-mainframe integration of one kind or another for a 
dozen years or so now and one client that sticks in my mind was trying 
to build an "object-interface to the mainframe". Another client wanted 
to let his supliers check stock levels and take charge of resupply. And 
another had a contractor in to build a repository of pc-mainframe 
transactions so that they wouldn't get lost, rebuilt or broken.

All looks so pretty much like Web Services with private UDDI, to me.

Francis.

Received on Thursday, 10 January 2002 08:47:22 UTC