Aaron Skonnard asked “Is UDDI Dead?” a few days ago, Wondering if WS-Addressing will reduce the need for it. Dave Bettin thinks that it can be sucessful, at least in the enterprise. Michael Erls thinks so too.
My take - UDDI hasn't lived at all yet. I'm not so sure it will. I agree with the opinions that if it does, it will be in the enterprise only, but I don't think it will live there either.
Why not? Well, at several large enterprises, I've seen solutions already in place -- web services at well known points that serve up the endpoints...
SOA and SOE sound great. I love the goals, and I think that this approach may be
able to accomplish them. In fact, I'm trying to adopt these philosophies
myself and explore the benefits and drawbacks. However, instead of discussing if
SOA is going to work, I've been wondering what happens when you do SOA
half-assed.
That's right - what happens when you use SOA approaches but do them poorly, or
without understanding? Now that you've quit reading, let me explain why I ask...