Objects are for Wimps: Real Developers need S.O.S

The shift from business-to-consumer (B2C) applications to business-to-business (B2B) integration applications has posed new requirements on software development. To address these requirements many new development paradigms have emerged. Real developers are faced with a wide array of technologies, tools, methods, and techniques, and have to decide which ones are important. The primary indicators point to “specifications” and (web) “services” as the new wave of approaches that need to be the foundation of every developer along with the well established Object Oriented approach. This article discusses these new requirements, and provides real developers guidance on making Specifications, Objects and Services part of their skill repertoire.