Various standards bodies and organizations are contributing to and competing for different Web services formats, but promoters of the new WS-Discovery specification say it will expand the market for Web services more than other specs by seamlessly connecting all kinds of devices — including desktops and cell phones — to the networked world. Detractors of the WS-Discovery spec — introduced this week at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco by Intel, Microsoft, Canon and BEA Systems — complain it is a closed, proprietary effort meant to promote corporate monopolies.
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Microsoft, Intel Push Web Services Discovery Spec
Posted by: Jay Lyman February 18, 2004 03:08 PMVarious standards bodies and organizations are contributing to and competing for different Web services formats, but promoters of the new WS-Discovery specification say it will expand the market for Web services more than other specs by seamlessly connecting all kinds of devices — including desktops and cell phones — to the networked world. Detractors of the WS-Discovery spec — introduced this week at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco by Intel, Microsoft, Canon and BEA Systems — complain it is a closed, proprietary effort meant to promote corporate monopolies.