The End Of The Road For Web Services

Misleading title. This is actually about the end of a consortium which produced an inefficient set of standards for Web services, and called their standards "Web Services".

Sounds like you only read the under-headline summary.

The article goes on to predict that the end of the consortium indicates the WS-I standards are unlikely to be enhanced going forward, basically stating that REST has won.

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And REST is a way of building Web services.

WS-I tried to make the WebService stack of different vendors interoperable, and actually helped a lot in making distributed systems less of a pain to implement. REST is the new trendy kid on the block, but still has a lot of work to do to replace the WS-* standards. There is a great presentation by Sanjiva Weerawarana on REST vs SOAP (or REST vs SOA architectures)[1], and a lot of points he makes are still not addressed by REST.

[1]http://www.infoq.com/presentations/sanjiva-rest-myths

Good headline - made me read and made a good point

I think its particularly sad that the focus of various news sites is on the demise of WS-I, and not the fact that the long awaited BP 1.2 and 2.0 are finally final.