Net Services, .NET, Java, and MDA

by Paul Harmon

In last week's Distributed Enterprise Architecture E-Mail Advisor, I commented on a working definition of Web services that I borrowed from Paul McDougall of InformationWeek. McDougall argued that "At their heart, Web services [include] ... SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and forerunner XML.... Web services promise an IT world in which open messaging, search, and registry protocols will enable programmers to build software components that can automatically seek out and interact with other components built to the same standards." I went on to argue that, in essence, this was simply a definition of middleware, based on XML.

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Net Services, .NET, Java, and MDA 17 October 2001