[badminton1]

- CORBA has service discovery and interface definitions.

- SOAP has service discovery and interface definitions.

- SOA has service discovery and interface definitions.

Some of these are like over 20 years old. They also included many other features. I would not describe this as being "the future".

[preordained]

That, and I think this is reflective of a general trend where whatever we have now is wrong because X is the future. Oh noes, are you really going to build it that way?! But you'll be left behind! I don't think attempting to be a technology prognosticator is good engineering--or a good strategy for most anything.