Service Architectures

[Frank Bergmann]

Hi Allan,

sounds like an interesting job you've got...
You may try the dist-obj@distributedcoalition.org mailing list
if you don't get a reasonable answer at FoRK. And please let
me know about the results, ok?

Bests,
Frank

mailto:fraber@fraber.de, http://www.fraber.de/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Doyle" <adoyle@intl-interfaces.com>
To: <fork@xent.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: Service Architectures


> 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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