The Future of Programming: Less Is More
"It's also no accident that the 'WS-deathstar' construction is being fielded by IBM and Microsoft while the REST [Representational State Transfer] movement is one of grassroots. The age of the vendor is nearing its end. A new age of peers, collaboration a
Why SOAP sucks.
Is SOAP too complicated?
I recall an interview with one of the flickr founders. He said that they have made a SOAP and a REST APIs available. Everyone uses the REST api!
If SOAP is too complicated for the average programmer to use, what about OWL? what about BPEL4WS? These are way more complicated than SOAP. I foresee them dissapearing in the near future to be replaced by an ugly hodge-podge of XmlHTTPRequests and Javascript with informal semantic meaning attached to XML tags.
It seems, only the simplest survive, and then evolves into one complicated mess. For example, HTML.


Multi agent system Simulation tool
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