by Dave Linthicum

Are you a Service Archeologist? Should You Be?

analysis
Oct 3, 20051 min

Want to leverage your enterprise's Web services? Chances are you'll be enabling or exposing existing application services and not building new. This should come as no surprise to anyone. However, while we've been focusing on the development of new services, how to do it, and what tools to use, most of the work that I see coming is learning how to translate and expose legacy services. So, my prediction is that on

Want to leverage your enterprise’s Web services? Chances are you’ll be enabling or exposing existing application services and not building new. This should come as no surprise to anyone. However, while we’ve been focusing on the development of new services, how to do it, and what tools to use, most of the work that I see coming is learning how to translate and expose legacy services. So, my prediction is that one of the best paid jobs in 2006 will be engineers specializing in Web services enablement of legacy systems. I’ll call them service archeologists.