IBM have announced their long-rumoured RESTy Web Sphere
successor, Project
Zero..
Back in February, Don Box said that IBM embracing REST would be
like
asking Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to write the Democratic
Party platform.
Well, its happened. And I'm not going to touch it. Just as I
wouldn't let Cheney and Rove join the democrats unless they
apologise for Iraq, I'd only go near something RESTy from IBM
unless they (a) denounce and apologise for WSDL, (b) apologise for
WS-RF (c) withdraw all funding for and participation in WS-*
semi-standards. (d) Back off from JCP projects related to WS-* and
join RESTy working groups.
Otherwise, they are betting on both horses. In the enterprise
they will still be waving PPT-ware touting the value of
WebSphere-hosted WSDL-based SOA infrastructures. Then in Web 2.0
land they will be denouncing it and saying that REST is the
future.
No, If I wanted a RESTy application server with a team behind it
that actually believes in REST across the entire organisation, I'd
go for NetKernel, and
not just because they host this blog for me. They do that so I can
say things at arms length from my employers opinions, things like
WSDL is evil.
