Confused by ws-xyz specs ...
I have been trying to get somewhat up to speed on some of the various web service specification that seem to be touted by MS.
I have been partial to spec and standards for most of my career. I hate to re-invent the wheel and prefer to "steal" code and specs. I think I do know when standards are being created for reasons other than usefulness, at least in industries I am familiar with - the Hydro business recently. The main reason to be on IEEE committees seemed to be political - to sell your self, etc. There were a lot of "standards" being pushed that never saw the light of day because they were never intended to or written by committees of people that really didn't know what they were doing.
I look at the web service specifications, look at the names of the companies and people and thought that these standards would be something to be aware of but ...
I was reading Blogfarb's Goldblog "Writing specs just for the spec of it?" http://radio.weblogs.com/0121172/2003/03/10.html which has a link to an infoworld article http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/05/HNmanyspecs_1.html quoting Don Box. He is critical of the number of specs being written and the reasons. I see his name on the ws-xyz specs. I am confused.
I am trying to approach .NET from the point of view that I don't want to just be a coder or programmer. I have been working and studying aspects other than how to create a good winform or webform. I am more interested in how to create application that are testable, buildable, maintable and with "standard"s if possible. Not only am I more interested in a more "systems" view I would like that kind of experience to differentiate me from some of the "kids".
Anyway, I plan to keep on studying these "standards", following weblogs and mail lists and trying to differentiate between what is real and what is not.