Lingua Franca or Polyglot Babble? A Comparative Survey of Web Services Platforms

by Tom Welsh

Everyone agrees that Web services should be adopted only when they are the best solution -- which is not always, by any means. By and large, they represent a "lowest common denominator" that willingly sacrifices performance (and a measure of simplicity) to the overriding necessity of bridging heterogeneous systems.

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Lingua Franca or Polyglot Babble? A Comparative Survey of Web Services Platforms July 2003