Posts Tagged ‘protocols’
Is WS-* stack dead?
Posted on: October 7, 2008
Just a couple of years ago Microsoft was spending incredible amount of effort developing, standardizing and publicizing their WS-* web service stack. This was a huge effort, they teamed up with IBM and others and built and documented a pretty impressive set of protocols covering every possible communications need over http. Now it looks like their internal libraries is the only beneficiary of that work.
Don’t get me right 😉 , ADFS is using (depending on version) WS-Federation and WS-Trust, winrm and PowerShell remoting is relying on WS-Management, and so on, but in general these “standards” are not what the rest of world is using. And it looks like Microsoft is switching its gears too.
Have a look at the PDC 2008 (Professional Developers Conference – Microsoft’s key event on software development and APIs) agenda, and search for REST and WS-.
“WS-” will produce just two sessions. One of them is PowerShell and how it relies on WS-MAN. The other on Windows 7 web services API.
“REST” will give 4 including .NET and SQL ones.
And simply “web service” will give as much as 10.
Do we see WS-* being pushed to the edges and the simpler API coming from grass roots winning even inside Microsoft? Looks like we do.
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