Goran,
While I like what you say vis SOA here - I have to take you to task on
history ; -)
The ebXML foundation came out of the work of the XML/edi Group aligned with
the work of CEFACT on ooEDI.
It completely breaks the mold on EDI. Yes - things like ebMS are
founded on EDI+ communications - but the core of the ebXMl stack -
registry-centric XML-driven collaboration - and the notion of the "Fusion of
Five" is designed to sweep away the old EDI practices. Unfortunately XML
as implemented today is nothing more than a slightly better EDI. The whole
XML revolution is yet to truely take hold.
As for web services - this was a shameless grab by IBM and Microsoft -
attempting to be first to market ahead of ebXML with concepts that in essence
are nothing more than "real-time EDI" - with all the same strengths and
weaknesses of the
original real-time EDI implementations - just using XML and the
internet instead of EDI and private networks.
So much for history - no need to dwell there - the challenge now is to
bring real business enabled XML-driven processes and SOA to fruition.
Cheers, DW
----- Original Message -----
For example, Web Services are initiated with an idea of services
introduced by Microsoft 6-7 years ago and this idea has been formed from
distributed computing and component-based computing ideas and "learn on
mistakes" lessons from many organizations in 80s and 90s; ebXML is mostly
based on EDI ideas and "learn on mistakes" lessons,
etc.
