2006-11-09: Really Simple Orchestration

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The loose coupling of web services is said to require three operation Publish, Find and Bind. Orchestration of web services is, in effect, repeated execution of the Publidh-Find-Bind triad. Really Simple Syndication (RSS, GeoRSS) opens the way to Really Simple Orchestration (RSO). Here is what I mean: If you Publish your content as RSS feeds, publishing is simply a matter of offering the feed. There a numerous search/crawler services that catalog RSS feeds. Finding RSS feeds is now possible through a variety of RSS seach mechanisms. The real simplification arises from the ease of Binding to RSS feeds. So, RSS-based Pulish-Find-Bind is, i.e. RSS-based orchestration offers really easy and loose coupling. An extra bonus is that RSS offers dynamic updates, so the orchestrated components form a self-adjusting adoptive system. It would be neat to have an illustration like, del.icio.us (source) - mediawiki (client) - ..Rhusar 17:55, 9 November 2006 (CST)