14. Web Services Pragmatics
THE AUTHORS OF THIS BOOK DEEPLY BELIEVE in the promise of Web services and are optimistic about their future. We believe that the combination of standards and technologies described so far in the book enables tremendous advances in distributed computing and systems integration. Yet we’re realists, and we know that we’re just at the dawn of the Web services revolution. Much work remains to be done. Some of it requires true innovation, and some of it requires time for the computing industry to rationalize and absorb the innovation that has already taken place. Remember, in early 2000 we only had SOAP. Now—well, you know how much you’ve had to cover to get to this point in the book.
We’re conscious that we write about ...
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