Re: Xquery might have some things right

"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:kSl4c.16961$ft4.103187_at_attbi_s54...
> "Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bi22c.55867$%b5.36952_at_newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> >
> > I'd still like to hear a good definition for "services design pattern".
I'm
> > not being facetious... I'd just like to be clear on what differentiates
> > services from other forms of remote call we've had in the past.
>
> I don't see any reason to think it's anything other than client-server
> computing under a new name. You get RPC but with XML as
> the transport.
>
> That's one beef I have with XML and its ilk; they like to come up
> with new names for old things and act as if they've invented something
> miraculous.

Exactly right. I used to think Fabian Pascal was a curmudgeon, correct but a little too Chicken Little. After reading the trade rags and W3C specs with a slightly more intellectually critical eye, however, one quickly sees the regurgitative process at work. And regurgitating mostly garbage too!

• Eric "Call me Curmudgeon" Kaun