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Article Excerpt
No standards movement in the history of the software industry has garnered as much attention or support as Web services. After the previous decade's failed attempts to reach unity, the industry has lauded the promise of more flexible, open, and interoperable software as a revolution and a breath of fresh air.
Corporations are applauding the possibility that the software industry is finally starting to standardize its offerings, thereby helping to eliminate the islands of information that exist within nearly every Global 2000 organization. It's perceived that Web services will go a long way toward eradicating the integration challenge that's the number-one cause of CIO headaches.
Despite many attempts, and, some pockets of progress, the software industry remains essentially a craft business, relying on the individual knowledge and skills of highly trained, experienced developers to stitch together disparate operating systems, middleware systems, and development environments. The largest cost of IT projects is labor. The industry needs standards that allow rapid mass assembly of individual components into integrated business operations.
Many industries have gone through this process, for example, standard shipping containers in transportation, standardized parts in automobile and hard goods manufacturing, standardized components in PC manufacturing, and standardized media formats in CD and DVD entertainment systems. In each case, a tremendous shakeout occurred in which new companies gained market share by embracing the new standards and understanding their true business value.
Today we're at a crossroads. The core standards--SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI--have been universally adopted and implemented, but disagreements over next steps and industry fragmentation are emerging over the standardization of technologies at the upper layers of the stack. Recently, the industry has witnessed a controversy around orchestration, or choreography, with Oracle and Sun leading the WSCI (Web...
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