What does surnamespacing give me?

• Accountability: Your code is directly linked to your family honor. You'd be surprised how hard people work at test cases and increased code coverage when the respect of their lineage is at stake.
• Connect with your Extended Family: Connect with programmers sharing your namespace, your family is now your development team.
• Minimize Collisons: The ball and chain associated with an imposed naming scheme means that we won't have everyone using foo and bar to hold their code, unless you're the lucky son of a bitch that has inherited that top notch surnamespace real estate.
• Faster Initial Development Cycle: Sometimes naming your library is the hardest part. Skip this step and just surnamespace it.

Jesus Christ, please show me some examples:

JavaScript Surnamespacing

var Christ = {
    Jesus: {
        walkOn: function(obj) {},
        turn: function(from, to) {},
        respawn: function() {}
    }
};
// Sample Usage
Christ.Jesus.walkOn('water');
Christ.Jesus.turn('water', 'wine');
Christ.Jesus.respawn();

Java Surnamespacing

package Christ;
public class Jesus {
    public void walkOn(String s) {}
    public void turn(String from, String to) {}
    public void respawn() {}
}

PHP 6 Surnamespacing (projected usage)

namespace Christ {
    class Jesus {
        public function walkOn($obj) {}
        public function turn($from, $to) {}
        public function respawn() {}
    }
}

Update: Apparently I can't write Java code. Don't tell work.

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Are you programming a for loop? How do you know that the client will increment your integers through the loop correctly? That's why you need to call our Incrementer Web Service to increment your loop counter.

Sample Service Calls:
Increment 0: http://www.zachleat.com/Projects/SOA/index.php/incrementer/0
Increment 3920: http://www.zachleat.com/Projects/SOA/index.php/incrementer/3920
Increment 98: http://www.zachleat.com/Projects/SOA/index.php/incrementer/98

Are you programming an array that needs to be magically combined into a string? Do you think you can reliably count on Internet Explorer to perform the function in the same way as your Firefox's, or your Opera's, or even your (God Forbid) Safari's??? No, dare I say it, no.

But don't fear. We are here to comfort your pain, with a shot in the arm of standarditity. Welcome the String Concatenation Web Service.

Sample Service Call:
Concatenate string1 with string2 with string3: http://www.zachleat.com/Projects/SOA/index.php/concat/string1/string2/string3/

And finally, are you feeling lost in this sea of amorphous web technologies mixing and mashing together to form the gelatinous blob of money and media whores we know as Web 2.0? Don't worry, OMG SOA is here for you again to solve all of your identity crisis problems. Ask our Are you Web 2.0 Web Service with your URL and the magic 8 ball service will answer your question.

Sample Service Call:
Is www.zachleat.com Web 2.0? http://www.zachleat.com/Projects/SOA/index.php/am-i-web-2.0/www.zachleat.com/

Technorati Tags: soa, soap, web 2.0

Update: apparently there is already a company called the Object Management Group with a website about SOA. Whoops?

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