March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 36m
English
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Web Services Adoption Factors
Web services are new technologies and require a paradigm shift. The adoption of web services is directly impacted by the adoption of the paradigm of web services development.
A paradigm shift can happen quickly in a large wave, when suddenly the whole world is doing something differently, and no one notices how and when it happened until after the fact. An example of such a shift is the World Wide Web phenomenon that began around 1995. The combination of HTML, HTTP, and the CGI programming model is not the most efficient way to accomplish the services offered by these technologies, yet the CGI model gained widespread grassroots acceptance because it was simple and easy to adopt.
The acceptance of CGI started the wave. To become a lasting paradigm shift, the model of web-based business needed broader acceptance among corporate IT and industry leaders. This acceptance was encouraged by continuing standards development within W3C and IETF and through continuing technology innovations such as ISAPI, NSAPI, Java Servlets, and application servers. Eventually, high-level architectures and infrastructures such as .NET and J2EE were created to hold everything together.
Unlike the initial adoption of the Web, which was driven by grass-roots demand, the adoption of web services will be driven downward by corporations. It’s still a paradigm shift, but it’s likely to move more slowly. The adoption of the fax machine provides a good analogy. Because fax machines ...
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