I couldn’t believe it either. The envelope please. Ladies and gentleman. In the category Most Enterprisy API, the winner is … Apache’s very own XML-RPC.
Symptomatic. Stuart Charlton:
To me, it is not that WS-* sucks, or that REST is a faddish religion. It is that vendors are not addressing fundamental problems in the application model that SOA derives from, i.e. a hybrid of component-based development, OO-RPC, and messaging-oriented middleware. It is bound to hit a wall of our own making, as currently practiced.
Not just a pretty face. JavaScript, not that bad after all. Matthieu Riou:
Each of these technologies are more proven than most others, they’re all over the web and they’re robust. So why not making good use of them on the desktop as well? And there are several interesting side effects. Your application can all of a sudden run anywhere, no portability issue. There’s no compilation or long startup time anymore, just save, press F5 and you’re done.
Getting your dog fixed. Crosbie Fitch comments on my naive attempt to get my cellphone fixed:
Taking a phone back to a shop to get it fixed is like taking a dog back to the puppy farm to get a congenital defect fixed by gene therapy. They won’t know what the heck you’re on about, and will suggest you ditch the one you’ve got and get a pup from a recent litter.