Comments on: Sitting on the fence http://log.illsley.org/2006/12/09/sitting-on-the-fence/ There are a limited number of profound statements in this world Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: davidillsley http://log.illsley.org/2006/12/09/sitting-on-the-fence/#comment-646 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:04:37 +0000 http://davidillsley.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/sitting-on-the-fence/#comment-646 I totally agree that KISS is good, that HTML is a success because of sloppy parsing, and that RSS is too… and that they’re great.

I think it comes back to using the right tool for the task.

When I think about a bank and credit card company exchanging information I don’t believe that these simpler solutions (e.g. RSS) have proven themselves yet. So how can we deal with that? We pump up the formalism.

Do I think that we can do all of these things more simply? Yes.
Do I think that if we tried today we (and our customers) could be as confident in the solution? No
Do I think we could have a WS-* 2.0 which takes a number of years of real-world experience and simplifies everything? In another couple of years, Yes
Do I think it will happen? Maybe

]]> By: Andrew Ferrier http://log.illsley.org/2006/12/09/sitting-on-the-fence/#comment-630 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:40:13 +0000 http://davidillsley.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/sitting-on-the-fence/#comment-630 I’m not sure I really agree with everything he’s saying, but Adam Bosworth’s untitled talk here: (which is essentially about standards simplicity)

http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000031.html

has a lot to say for me about the differences between SOAP, REST, etc.

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