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"complexity merchants" - I love this term. It aptly describes beneficiaries of earlier IT fads. Remember UML? Remember WS-*? One could come up with a long list

"complexity merchants" - I love this term. It aptly describes beneficiaries of earlier IT fads. Remember UML? Remember WS-*? One could come up with a long list of technologies that were a bonanza for billing consultant hours but no so great for getting to solutions.

switchbak 4y ago
The debacle that was J2EE is hard to top (but I'm sure some have!). I still have battle scars from OSGi. CORBA belongs there. And perhaps even the semantic web stuff. Definitely XML!
- 77pt77 4y ago
  SOAP, don't forget SOAP.
  - hooverd 4y ago
    SOAP is great when it works. Ingest a WSDL file and boom you've got an API client.
    - 77pt77 4y ago
      And it almost never works if you use different frameworks.
      - hooverd 4y ago
        Heh, lot of emphasis on "when it works".
- jstrebel 4y ago
  To be fair - J2EE (and its associated technologies like SOAP, XML) is a bit like alcohol. It is great when used in moderation, but gives you headaches when used excessively. XML is great - if you don't believe it, then you might be interested in the pains of parsing JSON: http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html And don't get me started on YAML...
flir 4y ago
I remember architecture astronauts.