Intercloud: Are You Moving Applications or Architectures?

A good question, and one that's certainly cropping up elsewhere.

 

 

I think the general concept is sound, it's the implementation that will be problematic. The suggestions thus far to develop something similar for "cloud service" registries relies on the same mechanisms as SOA registries: common descriptor format (XML, WSDL style) with querying capabilities and APIs (UDDI) that allow perusal and retrieval of those services. I think this is too heavy for cloud services, that the overhead from the protocols and formats will be as detrimental to adoption as it was with UDDI. We need something lighter weight, more along the lines of simple REST-ful APIs with a common simple service schema.

 

 

The concept is sound, it's the implementation that will have to adapt to more modern styles of integration.