Re: Development Trends in Web and Oracle

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:09:21 -0800
Message-ID: <1110773168.759917@yasure>

Galen Boyer wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:
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>>But it has yet to dawn on you that middleware processes talking XML
>>are also a gross waste of resources.

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> This just isn't true. It is a give and take. An XML interface allows a
> common coding architecture which then can allow applications to be
> delivered faster and less buggy. If the CPU is fast enough so that the
> overhead is small enough, then corporations will choose the
> less-performant solution to get to delivery faster with higher quality.
> It has happened this way throughout the life of technology.

Not sure I can agree with you. Middleware is application servers and app servers are hosts for applications. If someone has written an application that expects XML as its interface with an RDBMS then I would classify that as bad design just as I would classify as bad design someone using Java to write procedural code. You can do it but that doesn't make it anything other than a poor implementation.

My sole exception IMO would be if the point of the application is to exchange data between systems which is far different from supplying data to an application.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

Received on Sun Mar 13 2005 - 22:09:21 CST