Hey everyone… It’s time for a break. I am going to switch off completely for 7 days, so no blogging. Santorini is our destination. I’ve already been there twice but that was 13 and 12 years ago :-) It’s such a great place! See you in a week!
This article on “Service Orientation and Its Role in Your Connected Systems Strategy” by Microsoft’s Mike Burner is an excellent overview of service-orientation. I fully subscribe to these views. In the middle of the article there is a discussion of Microsoft’s related technologies which you can skip if you are …
- “No, mine is better” – “But you didn’t measure yours fairly” :-) Sun published a paper on the performance of J2EE vs .Net for SOAP processing and Microsoftresponded by replicating the same tests. Read more [...]
/**/ At least there are no objects that we can see. Objects may be used in an implementation of a service but there are no objects in the architecture (either remote or local). In a post that seems to miss this point, Sean Landis talks about “SOAs – Separating Hype …
/**/ In a previous post I mentioned Jim’s thoughts on the transition from objects, to components, and now services. His post generated some interesting comments and an entry in Stefan’s blog. Stefan wrote that …a component has a contract not only with the outside world, but also with the component …
/**/ Jim blogged about Xen and recommended the “Programming with Rectangles, Triangles, and Circles” paper, which is really interesting. I have been following the development of “Xen”, then “X#”, and now “Comega” for some time. Few months ago I attended the “Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#” presentation, a description of …
This is an interesting read on why “the world is asynchronous” by Werner Vogels.
As always, a great post from Jim: “From Objects, through Components, to Web Services”. I have to clarify that my discussion with Jim Gray, to which Jim referred, was not about architectural styles but rather about the usefulness and appropriateness of tools that hide the use of services and present …
Those who know Jim and me well always wonder how we can possible work together and produce interesting work since we seem to constantly argue and disagree on things… from who’s the uglier of the two (I usually let him win on this one :-), on all things technology related. …
Pat Helland‘s web site is up and includes presentations/videos. Checkout out his blog post for more information.
It seems that I am constantly on the road, which is cool because I like travelling and meeting people. I just got back from two days in Brighton, UK, where I attended the JISCJoint Programmes Meeting. JISC funds half of our WS-GAF project (effectively they pay half of Jim’s salary) …
If anyone happens to be in the Sydney area, I highly recommend Jim’s talk.
Greece are the new European Champions in football!!! This is beyond everyone’s imagination!!! I can only imagine the celebrations that are now starting in Greece. The party will go on for days and days.
What a result. The Greek team had never ever won or even drew a game in a major tournament and now they are through to the final of the Euro 2004. Go Greece! I had promised my girlfriend that I would take us to Porto for the final if Greece …
/**/ Service-orientation is all about services!!! :-) Services communicate through the exchange of messages. Hence, messages are important and the focus should be on their structure and their role into message exchange patterns. Service orientation promotes encapsulation, promotes boundary preservation. We shouldn’t allow details specific to our administrative domain to …
John run few tests yesterday trying to consume the WS-Eventing service I deployed yesterday. It was fun. We did discover some problems with our implementations that have now been fixed but we still need to run more tests. John has a post with his consumer code that worked against my …