Comments on: WS-* vs. REST, XML Schema vs. Relax NG- quit complaining. They can’t hear you http://www.kstaken.com/archives/104_ws-vs-rest-xml-schema-vs-relax-ng-quit-complaining-they-cant-hear-you.html Kimbro Staken exploring creative use of technology and whatever else happens to seem interesting. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:26:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Mokka mit Schlag » REST Pessimists http://www.kstaken.com/archives/104_ws-vs-rest-xml-schema-vs-relax-ng-quit-complaining-they-cant-hear-you.html#comment-510 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:57:12 +0000 http://www.kstaken.com/archives/104_ws-vs-rest-xml-schema-vs-relax-ng-quit-complaining-they-cant-hear-you.html#comment-510 [...] Several people have started to push back on the REST vs. WS-* and RELAX vs. W3C XSD and Rails vs. JEE fronts with a self-defeating argument. Well, of course, you’re right they say; but it doesn’t matter. The big vendors are selling these big, expensive complex solutions; and that’s all the CIO hears; so that’s all that matters. Sure, you can get the job done better/faster/cheaper with Rails/REST/RELAX, but you won’t. Well, to these pessimists I have a one-word response: [...] […] Several people have started to push back on the REST vs. WS-* and RELAX vs. W3C XSD and Rails vs. JEE fronts with a self-defeating argument. Well, of course, you’re right they say; but it doesn’t matter. The big vendors are selling these big, expensive complex solutions; and that’s all the CIO hears; so that’s all that matters. Sure, you can get the job done better/faster/cheaper with Rails/REST/RELAX, but you won’t. Well, to these pessimists I have a one-word response: […]

]]> by: Alastair Rankine http://www.kstaken.com/archives/104_ws-vs-rest-xml-schema-vs-relax-ng-quit-complaining-they-cant-hear-you.html#comment-509 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:37:06 +0000 http://www.kstaken.com/archives/104_ws-vs-rest-xml-schema-vs-relax-ng-quit-complaining-they-cant-hear-you.html#comment-509 I don't know about you, but I take consolation in the fact that simplicity does tend to win out in the end though. I notice that elegance (not merely simplicity) is in of Tim Bray's <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/13/TPSM-Elegance" rel="nofollow">Technology Predictor Success Matrix</a>. I don’t know about you, but I take consolation in the fact that simplicity does tend to win out in the end though.

I notice that elegance (not merely simplicity) is in of Tim Bray’s Technology Predictor Success Matrix.

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