Comments on: Embracing Registries of Web Services

By: Philip McDermott

Philip McDermott — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:22:31 +0000

Thanks for the mention Duncan, clearly an apt time for a round-up. I’d just like to add that one of the key features of the Embrace Registry is that it actually tests the services that are registered, rather than just cataloging them. We see this as quite a big movement forward from the traditional registry where in the past web services have gone to die. The process of regular testing has already helped a number of our users fix obscure bugs and errors in their services.

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By: Luigi Iannone

Luigi Iannone — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:15:03 +0000

Difficult post Duncan because of the disillusionment around the topic these days.
I beg to differ from the general opinion, however, and claim that web services are a significant step forward towards the long-standing dream of AI. Bear with me a second and browse the link on the most popular web services. The weather seems the the most used one. But weather turns out to also the most common topic of conversation between human beings that do not know each other very well (just like heterogeneous services). We can safely conclude then, that machines are assuming distinctive intelligent traits, can’t we?