REST Pessimists
Several people have started to push back on the REST vs. WS-* and RELAX vs. W3C XSD and Rails vs. JEE fronts with a self-defeating argument. Well, of course, you’re right they say; but it doesn’t matter. The big vendors are selling these big, expensive complex solutions; and that’s all the CIO hears; so that’s all that matters. Sure, you can get the job done better/faster/cheaper with Rails/REST/RELAX, but you won’t. Well, to these pessimists I have a one-word response:
CORBA
It doesn’t matter how nicely you wrap a dead fish. Sooner or later it starts to stink, and gets tossed in the garbage.
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:35 PM
Meanwhile, the oppressed corporate developers of the world need to make a living for the next ten years before it not only stinks, but shines, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight. (Trope by John Randolph.)
December 3rd, 2006 at 2:47 PM
The problem with this argument is that after throwing CORBA in the garbage they replaced it with SOAP, not REST. I wonder what they’ll replace SOAP with?
December 4th, 2006 at 10:40 AM
J2EE = Corba 2.0
’nuff said. ;-)