Omri Gazitt (interviewed by Scoble explains the Web Services protocol stack. The key statement was basically: You, as a developer, won't have to know how all this stuff works... Only about a dozen people in the world will have to know how all this works. Now, this only helps to enforce my bad feelings about all this stuff. Imagine Tim Berners Lee, 14 years ago, saying the same thing about HTTP. The reason so many people currently just use pure XML over HTTP is because they understand how it works.
Posted by guenter at January 8, 2005 10:22 AM