as i get ready to celebrate the holidays this year, i spent a little time reflecting on what i would like from the various web services vendors. while a case of scotch was definitely tempting, what i really want is a better toolset.
to date, most of the programming tools available for building web services have focused on the ultimate deployment platform. in other words, theyve looked at the end implementation language first and tuned their work towards that. so, for example, visual studio aims at c# or vb, websphere application developer aims at websphere, and bea weblogic workshop targets weblogic. borland, who also makes generally excellent tools, has built support into jbuilder for web services, but again, targeting java.
now dont get me wrong. we need tools that will allow us to focus our energy on implementing web services in particular languages. after all, a service is worthless unless you can actually invoke it. so these tools are all very important parts of the overall web services development strategy.
at the same time, theyve all focused on the only platform/language/idiom-specific aspect of the entire web services spectrum - the i... 下一页