RE: web services

Walden,

I would have to agree with Walden that UDDI is likely to
go the way of Channels and CDL. I could be way off, but
the main value seems to be in cataloging available
services and making that available to Web Bots.

Soap works today on the iSeries and is fairly easy to
get up and running. It is going to be a long time before
these service become so popular that you need to
start cataloging them using UDDI, RDF, RIL, or the
current flavor of ?.

Overall, I would watch what the World Wide Web
Consortium is doing. They took the Soap specification
and expanded the scope. Soap is now part of the XML
Protocol working group. IBM and Microsoft certainly
have the ability to create their own standards (look at
WebSphere and how it implements the Servlet standard)
and Microsoft with XML data islands, but the reference
definition is likely to be set by the W3C.

David Morris

>>> WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com 02/04/02 09:45AM >>>
>From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@yahoo.com]
>Amazing how quickly a really good concept gets cluttered up.

Yes, UDDI is mostly a joke right now, but SOAP and web services are
actually
useful today. It's unlikely that most web services would ever find
their way
into a UDDI registry, after all why would (in my example) a book
publisher
what to let everyone know the URL for the availability service?
Private
registries, or just an e-mail with the service details, are a more
likely
way to let people know about the services available.

-Walden