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by taeric 1168 days ago
Adding to the problems of generated schemas, Microsoft and Sun both had different views on how they should be generated. I bought into the promise of "build a wsdl" and you can get clients from .NET and Java. I lost all of that buy in. Hard.

I don't know that I can lay the blame on either one of them directly, mind. But the industry definitely suffered from the bad faith cooperation of those companies.
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radicalbyte 1168 days ago
Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP, Oracle et al explicitly made WDSL and related technologies not interoperate... and that is where JSON + universe has been a delight.
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taeric 1167 days ago
Totally fair. Not sure why I limited my memory to just the two companies.

I'm not clear on how JSON as a format has helped interaction. I'm reminded of like efforts to standardize how information is stored on pages. By and large, that ship sailed and sites that have remained somewhat stable have driven how we look for information on them. All without having to add new schema languages or tools.

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