My article (written with my colleague Andreas Elting) on service versioning has been published in ObjektSpektrum, one of Germany’s leading technical magazines (the means of course that it’s in German!). As I have tried to show in this blog the idea of just using web services does NOT mean that the services and their consumers are fully decoupled from each other. Changes in the XML are unavoidable if the architecture has to adapt to changing business requirements, but these very changes can render a message unreadable for either the service provider of consumer. Service versioning is one way of managing this problem.
Previous ruminations on this topic can be found here.
