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Is the Web "Good Enough" for Web Services?

Posted by Paul Downey on May 26, 2008 08:04 AM

Community
SOA
Topics
REST,
WS Standards,
Web Services
Tags
WS-Addressing,
Qcon London 2007,
QCon
Summary
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Paul Downey, who is Chief Web Services Architect for BT and a participant in many standards groups, talks about the Web and why he believes its architecture is superior to that of SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.

Bio
Paul acts as Chief Web Services Architect for BT, defined the exposure of the BT Web21C services, chairs the W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group has participated in the W3C Web Services Addressing, W3C Web Services Description and WS-I Basic Profile Working Groups, and presented at the W3C Workshop on The Web of Services for Enterprise Computing.

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