January 15, 2007 — I’ve decided to stop being polite about the WS-* stack. I shipped my first XML-over-HTTP solution more than seven years ago. SOAP didn’t exist, so we just used servlets to parse requests and respond appropriately, a technique that
Mashups are in a holding pattern until the next big breakthrough, IMHO, this will likely be design patterns or tools (and probably both) that breaks the logjam preventing easy creation of good mashups.