{"id":187,"date":"2007-05-21T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2007-05-21T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T14:28:07","slug":"its-all-about-the-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"It’s all about the consumer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read Eric Newcomer’s writeup<\/a> on Gregor Hohpe’s JavaZone presentation on InfoQ<\/a>. I haven’t watched the presentation yet, but it’s in my to-do list, and Eric’s writeup certainly raised the priority of it a notch.<\/p>\n

Eric makes a lot of good points in his writeup, but the most important one in my opinion, is his last statement which I wanted to call out here:<\/p>\n

\nThe point of SOA is not to make life easy for the developer of a service – it’s to make life easy for the consumer of the service – which might (and probably should) be someone else.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well said Eric!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read Eric Newcomer’s writeup on Gregor Hohpe’s JavaZone presentation on InfoQ. I haven’t watched the presentation yet, but it’s in my to-do list, and Eric’s writeup certainly raised the priority of it a notch. Eric makes a lot of good points in his writeup, but the most important one in my opinion, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}