One audience member was pleased with this. "That's all I call is Web services," the audience member said. But another person in the attendence frowned on the idea.
"There are huge security implications. Why would you ever want to do that? That's terrible," he said.
Another expressed security concerns with AJAX in general, saying some turn off AJAX because of fears about logging of keystrokes and data.
"If you want to kill Atlas right now, just plant a story about an AJAX virus," Prosise responded.
After the session, Prosise said PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and other non-ASP.Net developers also could take advantage of Atlas. But he was unaware whether Microsoft was developing any framework similar to Atlas specifically intended for PHP or another non-ASP.Net language.
"I do know they would like to be friendly to PHP developers as well. Their framework is designed as such that a PHP developer could take advantage of it," said Prosise.
Also at TechEd on Wednesday, a Microsoft official reiterated that Microsoft has no plans to offer an ESB (enterprise service bus) product. Instead, the company will continue to position its BizTalk Server business process management system and other products, such as Visual Studio and the SQL Server database, as offering ESB functionality. ESBs are commonly used for message-passing in Web services environments.
"The simple answer [to the question of whether Microsoft will release an ESB] is no. We won't because we do believe our current products and technologies offer pretty much a superset of ESB technologies," said the official, Lukas Cudrigh, a Microsoft technology strategist.
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