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The object. (Wanted: autonomy).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-OCT-02 		Format: Online - approximately 796 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The object is certainly not a new concept, but Web services are considered new, difficult, and intimidating. Since a Web service can be thought of as a glorified object with standard interfaces, why isn't this old hat? Many of the difficulties of implementing services of any kind should be old hat, but in fact we've been cheating all these years.

The original motivation behind objects--going back even before the first object-oriented languages--was to enable reuse. By having self-contained and autonomous chunks of functionality, these chunks can be called by anyone at any time. At least in theory. Many of the limitations of early objects, such as proprietary data formats, sequencing issues, and interdependencies, were solved at the expense...

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