WSIF's Early Demise?

<sarcasm>

WSIF is dead or dying and on it's last legs?

Hardly!

BPEL engines are gaining ground and attention, not to mention market share.  
Virtually every BPEL engine out there supports WSIF as an 
interface/invocation technology.  And these are from "small/inconspicuous" 
vendors such as IBM, Oracle and others.

JBI and SCA?  They are too complex, too heavy weight, not standardized, not 
available and compete with each other.  Who knows where that space will go.

Contrast that with WSIF's market penetration, simplicity and functionality.  
No contest.

WSDL 2.0 is around the corner and there is a place for WSIF to integrate the 
new WODEN WSDL framework to support WSDL 2.0.  Not to mention the addition of 
more providers.

We have an opportunity to make WSIF even more attractive, compelling and 
important.  Let's not waste it!

As for the gentleman that suggested that WSIF needs to be put out to pasture? 
He's deluded and uninformed.  Need I say more?

That being said, I would like to propose that we rename WSIF to just SIF.  
The "Web" term is misleading and superfluous. Some rebranding and 
repositioning of SIF would go a long way to explaining to many it's value 
proposition.

</sarcasm>


Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com