{"id":63,"date":"2006-11-28T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2006-11-28T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T17:55:07","slug":"salesforcecom-ws-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/63-salesforcecom-ws-is-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce.com: WS-* is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spoke to Adam Gross, Vice President, Developer Marketing at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salesforce.com<\/a>. His company has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/newsevents\/press-release.jsp?year=2006&amp;month=November&amp;id=061127\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced<\/a> that during its third quarter, API transactions (driven by web services)&nbsp;surpassed CRM page views on its service for the first time. I asked Gross whether Salesforce.com would move towards the WS-* standards as its evolves its API. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very big advocates of SOAP and WSDL,&#8221; he&nbsp;told me. &nbsp;&#8220;We&#8217;re probably the largest users of SOAP and WSDL in any business anywhere in the world. That said, my sense is that WS-* is dead. There is not a lot happening in WS-* that is being driven by customers and use cases, and there is not a lot that is being informed by what we&#8217;ve learned from &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243;. I question its relevance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How then will Salesforce.com solve problems like those which WS-* addresses, such as as reliable messaging? &#8220;If any part of WS-* has promise it&#8217;s reliable messaging, but I&#8217;ve been part of the web services technical community since late 2000. We&#8217;ve been talking about reliable messaging standards since then. That&#8217;s close to seven years. You have to wonder if the WS-* process is going to reach a meaningful conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead, we&#8217;re going to see more organic innovation and best practices. There is no standard for AJAX. There is no standards body. It&#8217;s community-driven rather than vendor-driven, and that&#8217;s been very successful. I keep an open mind, but I think that WS-* and the people who are working on it need to start showing their relevance.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:38f9c751-4cdf-4597-a512-1953a0d26ba4\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/web%20services\" rel=\"tag\">web services<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ws-*\" rel=\"tag\">ws-*<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/soap\" rel=\"tag\">soap<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/salesforce.com\" rel=\"tag\">salesforce.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/apex\" rel=\"tag\">apex<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spoke to Adam Gross, Vice President, Developer Marketing at&nbsp;Salesforce.com. His company has recently announced that during its third quarter, API transactions (driven by web services)&nbsp;surpassed CRM page views on its service for the first time. I asked Gross whether Salesforce.com would move towards the WS-* standards as its evolves its API. &#8220;We&#8217;re very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/63-salesforcecom-ws-is-dead.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salesforce.com: WS-* is dead<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-software","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}