The WS-I’s job wasn’t to write standards, but to work out how to implement the standards, “offering guidance to vendors on how to implement the standards to guarantee interoperability,” explains Bloomberg. So, the committee’s pronouncement that it’s finished would be great news if we had deep interoperability, but, notes Bloomberg, we don’t.

There are a number of factors at play here, as Ron Schmelzer, also a managing partner at ZapThink, says in an IDG article on the WS-I announcement. Web services have lost ground to the alternative REST Web services and mergers, and acquisitions have “also diminished issues of interoperability,” Schmelzer points out.

Read the entire post at http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/is-the-web-losing-ground-on-freedom-interoperability/?cs=44432.