RE: [was] Today's meeting

["David Raphael" <draphael@citadel.com>]

Hello everyone,


I do not think that the level of interest has really dropped all that
much.  We have had some changes in participation, and I think that we
are going to be back on track very soon.  I speak to people on a daily
basis - who are very interested in what this TC is doing.  There will be
updates very soon.  


Regards,
David Raphael



-----Original Message-----
From: rogan@dawes.za.net [mailto:rogan@dawes.za.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:03 AM
To: Kevin Heineman
Cc: was@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [was] Today's meeting

Quoting Kevin Heineman <kheineman@spidynamics.com>:

> I dialed in to the meeting today but apparently it was cancelled.  I
> missed the last couple of meetings so I was looking for an update.
The
> website is not updated so I was wondering if someone could reply to
the
> group list and give a status of activities from the TC.  Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kevin Heineman

Hi Kevin,

It looks like the level of interest in WAS-XML has dropped significantly
(to
zero, practically)

I personally have very little time to spend on it nowadays, and frankly,
I'm not
even convinced that XML is the right tool to describe complex
interactions,
possibly involving multiple threads and multiple requests. It seems that
all we
would be doing is creating a new specialised programming language, with
none of
the flexibility of a 1st class language, and all the downsides and
complexity
of an XML document.

Maybe we were being too ambitious . . .

Rogan

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