RE: REST, Conversations and Reliability

Ugo,

I think that your point is valid: "putting lipstick on the pig is not
enough". 

But I believe that there is hope: look at how email servers evolved
thanks to SMTP.

Edwin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ugo Corda [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:33 AM
> To: '[email protected]'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: REST, Conversations and Reliability
> 
> 
> >New technologies and standards
> >like XML, XML Schema, HTTP, URI could take existing messaging 
> >infrastructure that are priorietary and difficult to deploy 
> and manage 
> >across domains and make then ubiquitous.
> 
> I would like that very much to happen myself, but I am not 
> convinced that it will, based on the current direction of things.
> 
> The way people have been talking so far about messaging 
> infrastructure being combined with Web Services is at the 
> level of running SOAP on top of existing MOM systems like 
> MQSeries, MSMQ, etc. But these are all proprietary systems 
> (and using JMS as a common API does not change that). In 
> particular, when one of these systems is chosen, both 
> communication points must support the same system.
> 
> I personally don't see how wrapping these messaging systems 
> in XML and SOAP can turn them into something non proprietary 
> and easy to deploy and manage. Maybe you had something else 
> in mind, which I would like to hear.
> 
> Thank you,
> Ugo
>