The Daily WTF

Lisa‘s company needed to add some custom functionality to a third-party application- IniERP- which was made easier by the fact that the company had a SOAP web service to interact with. The vendor supplied Java sample code for building the service, so it was trivial for Lisa to build her own code to automate those interactions. And everything went fine, and her users were happy.

So fine, and so happy, that other teams heard: “there’s a way to integrate your applications into IniERP.” Every department in the company had business processes which touched IniERP on some level, so “Lisa built a thing which lets you do this!” got her a lot of emails.

There were issues: there was only one “service” account configured by the operations team, so anyone wanting to interact with the service needed to share an account. For that reason, Lisa resisted sharing her solution until ops

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