Survival of the simplest

With all the WS* messaging protocols , especially WS - ReliableMessaging it appears that they have moved the *TCP* like features/behavior higher up in the layers .Do we still need to TCP lower in the transport layer , Will UDP make a comeback?

Recently finished working on another customer issue where an application working for a few years suddenly started failing. It was an update they recently made which broke their app. This got me thinking about the current state and future of software development...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/soap-over-udp.asp Saw this coming out recently, i have been wondering why no such spec was available for a long time . With all the reliablilty and other features being built...

Some of fellow bloggers pointed out the following post on zapthink .Some of the situations this article points out IMHO, are not applicable or non-existent . 1) homogeneous environment : In a real world enterprise you will never know if you have such...