The wait is finally over. After only three short months, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released their report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop.
Like in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic The Lord of The Rings, when the different races gathered in Rivendell to discuss the future of Middle Earth, so too did representatives from across the information technology landscape gather in Bedford, Massachusetts in late February of this year to decide the future of the so-called “Web of Services.” Unlike the novel, however, a small group of heroes did not emerge from the gathering with a clearly defined goal or a quest laid out before them.