What a F!#@ing Waste of Time!

Been doing some work with web services management lately and looking at the various standards and specs for that stuff, most notably WSDM and WS-Management. It's always frustrating when you have competing standards. So not only are WSDM and WS-Management competing standards but they are built on top of other competing standards, e.g. WS-Notification vs. WS-Eventing, WS-ResourceFramework vs. WS-Transfer, etc. So the vendors from both camps have decided that they should converge the two sets. After spending a couple years creating these competing standards, now they're going to spend some more time to converge them. So you screw the customers in the first place by creating the competing specs and now you screw them again because you're going to create a whole other set of specs and the previous set will eventually get deprecated. Not to mention the time you waste yourselves creating the competing sets only to get back together to converge them. Those of us in the customer community need to put an end to this madness.

web services, WSDM, ws-management