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March 2004

Is it a Web Service or not?

/**/ :-) Mark Baker blogs about “the iTunes music store and the non-browser Web”. He writes: So let me understand… ITMS is presenting an HTTP/URI based interface intended for use by automata, and not human-controlled browsers? How is such a thing possible?! THE WEB IS FOR HUMANS (isn’t it?)! Head …

ObjectSpaces in .NET

/**/ Some time ago I blogged about ObjectSpaces. Here’s some more information about it from Ryan Dawson blog. Read more [...]

Eric Newcomer on UML and MDA

/**/ Eric posted some comments on the use of UML and MDA. This is the last paragraph of his post… (And no, I don’t think either UML or MDA is very well suited to using for Web services, either. Class diagrams are just not the right metaphor, since Web services …

The “Service Network”

/**/ I personally see both the “message” and the “protocol” as part of Service-Oriented Architectures but Jeff Schneider sees a difference. Hmmm… Can’t make up my mind now but this post is worth a read. Also, if you haven’t seen it, here’s Jeff’s paper on the “World Wide Grid”. Jeff’s …

Caution: roadworks ahead!

/**/ As you may have noticed, I have changed the design of my webblog and the title of my blog in the feeds. I would like to apologise to those of you who are following my blog through an RSS or Atom reader in case this change has caused any …

Mark Baker on Jim’s post

/**/ Mark Baker comments on Jim’s recent post about “Service-orientation vs Resource-orientation” which included a diagram I created for our presentations. Mark seems to think that WS-RF’s notion of a resource is the same as the one the web is using. Although this may be true, I personally see a …

Interesting read

/**/ If you are into CLR performance measurements, Rico Mariani’s post comparing the performance of three ways of printing to a console is an interesting read. From Eric Gunnerson’s blog. Read more [...]

Template metaprogramming

/**/ Here is a good explanation of what template metaprogramming is all about. This article reminded of Francisco Pereira because I remember discussing template metaprogramming with him years ago, when he was here in Newcastle. It was the feature that persuaded him about the benefits of C++ templates. Francisco is …

Jim Webber on webservices.org

/**/ Jim has been interviewed by Joe McKendrick as part of an article entitled “Analysis: Can You Spare a Cycle or Two? Grid Computing Moves Closer to Web Services” which appears on WebServices.org. Here’s Jim’s blog post. Read more [...]

Nice article about Mono

/**/ Here is a nice article about Mono. I’ve been using Mono for some time and I am very pleased with it. I am using it to run nip.net on Linux and I am hoping to have some performance results soon. Thanks to Paul Watson for the link. Read more …

Mark responds but we still disagree

/**/ Mark Baker comments on my recent entry about operation names in SOAP messages. After talking to Jim for a bit, I realised that my comments didn’t come out in the way I intended. So, just to clarify… It’s not that I was objecting on services mapping messages to operations. …