I was recently asked to contribute to a couple of articles(The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0,Experts See Link Between Virtualization, SOA) by Darryl Taft of eWeek(Ziff Davis). I initially took an excessively “SOI” approach to this discussion only to have a conversation with Steve Graham that really helped me establish a more realistic set of comments around the junction between Web2.0 (with it’s requisite behavioral challenges around collaboration, composition and empowerment/personalization), and my natural slant toward SOA - namely the changing dynamics of system composition with a strong bent toward “systemness” or NFR’s.
The quote is certainly more accurately attributed to sgg, but is certainly a collaboration!
Thanks Steve!

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My feelings about WS-* vs. REST have never been hidden, in fact I wear them on my sleeve, and this analogy really cracked me up… some interesting comments as well.
The Cafes » North and South :

The analogy isn’t as silly as it sounds either. North Korean/Soviet style “communism” fails because it believes massive central planning works better than the individual decisions of millions of economic actors. WS-* fails because it believes massive central planning works better than the individual decisions of millions of web sites. It’s no coincidence that the WS-* community constantly churns out volume after volume of specification and one tool after another. The WS-* community really believes that developers are too stupid to be allowed to manage themselves. Developers have to be told what to do and kept from getting their grubby little hands all over the network protocols because they can’t be trusted to make the right choices.

Long live the empowered (highest common denominator) developer, see you in the deep end!

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