Today at work we demonstrated that interop between Java and .NET via web services is achievable in an "enterprse" application.
In hindsight had we taken the contract-first route we probably would have ended up saving countless hours of debugging, and the knowledge gained from such an exercise would be golden, but with tight deadlines its not simple to grok wsdl, soap, and xml schema. Regards, Serdar
Here's a few screenshots of the Technorati homepage through the years. I'm fond of the latest design, but for me the fourth design is my favourite. The earlier ones look quite humble, imho.