Friday, July 08, 2005

Great WS-* Case Study. Tim Bray has done a great case study write up about WS-*. Here's the intro: Last week at Java One, Ashesh Badani, a Sun SOA marketing person, wanted to have lunch with me to talk about WS-*. He brought along T.N. Subramaniam, Director of Technology for RouteOne, a car-loan aggregator. (Sun loves RouteOne, they're a reference customer not only for us but for SeeBeyond, which we're in the process of acquiring). Anyhow, neither Ashesh nor Ashok Mollin, a Sun guy who's been engaged at RouteOne, got a chance to say much, because T.N. and I hit it off and had a good time talking about Web Services. Which RouteOne are doing, big time and for big bucks and successfully. They are exactly the kind of people that those of us struggling in the WS-* morass ought to be looking to for lessons. This, I think, will be the first ever ongoing piece structured as an interview; with T.N.'s help, I've tried to reconstruct our conversation at lunch. I think some conclusions are obvious, but I'll leave them for you to draw. I'd bottom line the advice from TN as "So far so good, but as you fill out WS-* KISS (instead of addressing marginal cases)." 11:29:20 AM