Hi,
Well, my preference is for W3C over Wikipedia any day.
Looking at the OpenGIS documentation, it is interesting to note:
'The OpenGIS has been a precursor in Web Services matter, nevertheless, the pattern that has been used in not recognised by the industry as a standard "XML Web Services"' and 'The industry standard for web services is WSDL/SOAP/UDDI."
OpenGIS seems to define both a KVP (key-value pair) and XML version to their services which, of course, translates to web services with SOAP and HTTP bindings. Are you proposing to do the same with DAL?
I agree entirely that web services are being expanded beyond the initial technology selections of WSDL/SOAP/UDDI and indeed XML and that it is definitely worth our while to keep abreast of this and see if new solutions offer a better fit to our use cases. However, there is some merit in sticking to well-supported industry standards when they work.
Cheers,
Matthew Received on 2007-03-13Z23:02:48