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Wrong. SOAP descended quickly into the "whatever happened to" category. Like CORBA. I'm happy to say I threw out SOAP and used REST instead at Google, in practically my first act there:
https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-enterp...
The Internet had no time for multi-company, political garbage like SOAP and CORBA.
It's important to learn when to ignore things in this field. It's never possible to be 100% sure, but there are always going to be 'new! hot!' things.
> SOAP had serious technical shortcomings, but, as a market strategy, it was a masterstroke. Wrong. SOAP descended quickly into the "whatever happened to" category. Like CORBA. I'm happy to say I threw out SOAP and used REST instead at Google, in practically my first act there: https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-enterp... The Internet had no time for multi-company, political garbage like SOAP and C…
The old adage: "the first rule of distributed objects: don't distribute your objects". DCOM and EJB also came unstuck by failing to observe this rule. It's impossible for young'uns to appreciate just how obsessed the software world was by 'objects', OO and the chimera of reusability in those days; I subscribed to 'Object' magazine, and still recall one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke develo…
> " I subscribed to 'Object' magazine, and still recall one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke development would become bunk as folks would just buy e.g. an Aircraft object off the peg and plug it into their application. " One drum I keep beating is that COM in Windows is amazing for scripting and interoperability between programs. Before PowerShell and "everything is an object [but you're stu…
> SOAP had serious technical shortcomings, but, as a market strategy, it was a masterstroke. Wrong. SOAP descended quickly into the "whatever happened to" category. Like CORBA. I'm happy to say I threw out SOAP and used REST instead at Google, in practically my first act there: https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-enterp... The Internet had no time for multi-company, political garbage like SOAP and C…
Why are you taking the sentence out of context to change its meaning? TFA says it was a good business move by Microsoft for Microsoft because it fragmented the competition which had been consolidating around CORBA. What happened to it afterwards is irrelevant.
Just like CORBA sounded great in the press releases, but went nowhere in practice. Which is what this article is about.
The old adage: "the first rule of distributed objects: don't distribute your objects". DCOM and EJB also came unstuck by failing to observe this rule. It's impossible for young'uns to appreciate just how obsessed the software world was by 'objects', OO and the chimera of reusability in those days; I subscribed to 'Object' magazine, and still recall one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke develo…
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There was also a thread obsession. However, luckily, 'Threads' magazine is about sewing. I had an issue on my desk.
Ah yes apartment threading and all that. Read so much about that stuff, but will go to my grave having never understood it!
The old adage: "the first rule of distributed objects: don't distribute your objects". DCOM and EJB also came unstuck by failing to observe this rule. It's impossible for young'uns to appreciate just how obsessed the software world was by 'objects', OO and the chimera of reusability in those days; I subscribed to 'Object' magazine, and still recall one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke develo…
> one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke development would become bunk as folks would just buy e.g. an Aircraft object off the peg and plug it into their application Every time I consume a third-party’s REST API, I’m doing that, no? Albeit the article may have oversold the idea in the work ending there.
You're saying someone else's successful (and partial) execution of an idea somehow validates the original failed execution.
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Why no type checking? Generate an Open API client for target languages. Done. Assuming you need an API. I'll never build an app that way again, it's not worth my hands. I'd rather use Hotwire, or LiveViews, or Django's Unicorn for the web part. Zod looks nice too.
The problem isn't so much with checking as it is with what kinds of things you can check. OpenAPI offers a very powerless type system. So bad, it's almost not worth using. Not only that, it's designed for JSON, which is an awfully bad format -- so, even if you could check that somehow, you'd still be very limited by what you can actually send. Also, yeah, all kind of hot garbage you listed will work on Web, because t…
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Why are you taking the sentence out of context to change its meaning? TFA says it was a good business move by Microsoft for Microsoft because it fragmented the competition which had been consolidating around CORBA. What happened to it afterwards is irrelevant.
Because what happened to it afterwards is NOT irrelevant. Just like CORBA sounded great in the press releases, but went nowhere in practice. Which is what this article is about.