Service Architectures

[Allan Doyle]

I'm part of a project that's hashing out a service architecture right now. I
feel like we're thrashing and I've been starting to wonder - are there any
instances of wide-scale, heterogeneous, multi-party, web-based service
architectures deployed anywhere?

All the literature I've seen on this subject indicates that these kinds of
systems are under development but I've not found any that really exist and are
in use. UDDI, ebXML, DAML, .NET, ONE, etc. are still under formation. CORBA,
DCE, DCOM don't fit the bill. Jini is too "local".

I've looked at the REST papers and have lurked here and on decentralization to
see what's going on in these worlds. So far the evidence seems to be that
content indexing and discovery are alive and well, but service indexing,
discovery, and invocation are not ready for prime time. Thus my original
question - are there any running instances of fully deployed web services?

Thanks,

	Allan
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Allan Doyle                         http://www.intl-interfaces.com
adoyle@intl-interfaces.com