On my SOA Group there is a long-running debate about Services vs. Web
Services with some interesting comparisons between WS, SOAP, REST etc.
Patrick and Gregg are raising some interesting points about how J/JS
can provide significant advantages in interprocess interaction. You
can find the thread at the link below:


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/message/2105

Gervas

--- In jini_javaspaces@yahoogroups.com, "Gervas Douglas"
<gervasdouglas@y...> wrote:
>
> Sun obviously took a strategic decision to hide their Jini light under
> the proverbial bushel some time ago, and I always thought it was we
> Brits who were hopeless at letting the world know about a great
> technology! JavaSpaces - well it is as if someone tracked down where
> their children went to school ...
>
> There are brave souls however who make the effort to spread the word
> in an articulate and informed manner. In particular I would like to
> nominate Gregg Wonderly and Patrick May as J/JS Evangelists of the
> Year for the incisive manner in which they have pointed out the great
> virtues of this technology where apposite to members the other Groups
> I run, principally my SOA and N-GAA Groups.
>
> Gregg and Patrick, you are doing are great educative job in teaching
> people to think afresh outside the conventional tracks of J2EE, Web
> Services et al. Well done, Gregg and Patrick!
>
> Gervas