all service providers are proxies???

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

All:

I just read a great article on web service integration patterns at:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2004/06/16/patterns.html

Max addresses the fact that all modern web services are in fact proxies 
by the fact they abstract the true API by using XML/SOAP/ebXML etc to 
invoke the service.  As such, the proxy performs a few items

1. setParameterA()
2. setParameterb()
...
3. callService() //in native API language
4. getResult()
...

I believe that this is a good notion to have.  Matt Mackenzie posted an 
email this morning to that effect that eventually, this abstraction 
layer may go away but for now serves a valuable service.

Thoughts?

Duane

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