Let's all become cavemen

I just came across a statement made by a prominent industry figure about how WS-* is becoming so complex that it is not practical to implement a WS-* architecture with no tool/stack support. Well, what's wrong with relying on tools/stacks? Isn't that how humans have made progress? That is, a specialized few focus on a complex area and produce a useful package that can be used by others in tackling completely different complexity etc. Does a construction engineer have to understand the inner workings of all construction tools? Seems to me that if we start eschewing tools as a principal, we will all end up more or less cavemen. I'd rather use tools.

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• Anonymous
  November 10, 2004
  If a clear and simple standard, designed (amongst other things) to reduce the number of tools required, becomese so complex than a tool is required to manage the complexity of the standard, then it has likely failed.
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  November 10, 2004
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• Anonymous
  November 10, 2004
  I'm assuming you mean that when we had just SOAP things were comparatively clear and simple. Well, you can still build apps today and into the foreseeable future using just SOAP. I think of SOAP as the basic versatile wrench. No one is taking that away. But some people want more advanced technologies to help them solve problems they encounter in building their business apps. WS-* technologies are aimed at that. The idea is that you use only what you need. Because the problems are often hard, the solutions end up being more complex than say just plain SOAP. But the tools/stacks are supposed to abstract that complexity and make it easier to deal with.
  
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  November 10, 2004
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