Service Misconceptions

As the SOA is maturing so the web service, one of the most common way to implement SOA. But misconceptions about Web service are still prevalent among developers, architects and business persons. Here I have listed some of them and giving arguments for them. This list is comprehensive but far from complete.

1. Web services are not distributed objects
2. Web services are RPC of internet
3. Web services need http/s
a. Have you think of JMS, SMTP, UDP etc based services
4. Web services are not for large amount of data transfer
Please refer:
MTOM specification
5. Debugging of web services is impossible
Please refer:
a. Progress Actional Diagnostics
b. XMLSpy® 2009
6. Web service do not support transaction
Please refer:
a. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-tx/
b. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-comproto/
c. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-tx
7. Web service security is sketchy
Please refer:
a. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Security
b. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss