- From: Frank D. Greco <fgreco@crossroadstech.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:36:24 -0500
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
At 01:47 PM 1/10/2002 +0000, Francis Norton wrote: >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. People have been doing application integration for decades. Most of it, as Francis mentions, is/was ad hoc. Wall Street has been using rpc, corba, tooltalk, tibco and home-grown integration frameworks for a *long* time. I've been doing this type of work since the late 80's. I hope you SOAP-ists don't think that "behind the firewall" app integration is a new thing. The primary benefit of SOAP is *across* the firewall. I sincerely doubt you'd convince the major global investment banks that SOAP is superior to what they already have for *internal* applications. Maybe in a few years when SOAP (et al) frameworks are available, but not now. Frank G.
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