Jolt Award / Cape Clear 7

Cape Clear has received a Jolt Award. Score!

We also just released Version 7 this week, with spiffy new Eclipse-based tools that make writing, testing and maintaining web services much, much easier coupled with an improved server.

So now, it is time to pause and take stock of where we are and where we want to go over the next year. What seems clear at this point, is that the simplicity of the SOA vision (services, loose-coupling, easy integration) is being corrupted with ever-increasing complexity. It is time to focus on the basics, on problems and their solutions, not technologies and the ever-growing checklist of things a developer supposedly needs to know (see this scary wallchart: WS-*). To quote NTK:

THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. NOW WE'RE STEALING IT BACK.