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i was recently invited to be a guest speaker at the ebay developers conference, where i was part of a panel whose topic was "delivering the promise of web services." i found it particularly interesting, if slightly worrisome. what struck me most was the differentiation between web services consumers and web services authors.
the audience at this presentation asked a large number of questions that helped me understand that consumers and producers are not the same groups of people. ebay developers are particularly interested in consuming web services (such as the ebay and paypal apis that are exposed as web services), but in general they were not interested in developing and publishing their own web services. this shaped the discussion in a way that was enlightening for me because it highlighted some of the things that the end users of the services we discuss so much are coping with.
in particular, these consumers were looking for better web services consumer mechanisms in their languages of choi... 下一页