Simon Fell, implementor of PocketSOAP, wonders why if we are building so much complexity into the WSA stack, don't we just go back to CORBA, which already has a complete stack?
Obviously, as a plumber, the complexity of the WSA stack is Simon's personal pain. Even more so as he focuses on a mobile platform. While I feel for him, as a user from a “big company” rather than an implementer, I'm happy to stay with the implementations of MS or IBM.
We all are very anxious about the finalization of WSA; however, WSA will be, in fact, contract based whereas CORBA forces an implementation and object-orientation rather than a service/message orientation.
Tim Ewald has an excellent thread including Don Box (Mr COM) and Michi Henning (Mr CORBA) on the failures of CORBA and other stacks.
And while we all wish the WSA stack was finished already, here one opiner that thinks it's going too quickly.