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February 2006 Archives
When and why are interoperability fests useful?
Posted by marklittle on February 01, 2006 at 03:09 AM | Permalink
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The world of Web Services has thrown up a range of various interoperability workshops aka plugfests; not to mention a whole organisation dedicated to interoperability. You might get the impression that because Web Services are about interoperability as much as internet-scale computing, such things have not been of interest in other distributed systems such as JEE or CORBA. But interoperability events do occur elsewhere. However, it is true that the approach to interoperability we're seeing now is markedly different from what we saw in the past: for most of the key players, interoperability is at the forefront of specification and implementation development. If you look at CORBA, it took 7 years or so for the OMG to address the shortcoming and things are still not perfect; and true heterogeneous JEE-to-JEE interoperability is a thing of the future.
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