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August 2004

I am not against CORBA or Object-orientation

/**/ Mark Little and I exchanged comments, which you may find interesting, on my last entry. We continued the exchange over instant messaging. Mark’s understanding of distributed computing technologies is great. My discussion with him made me realise that some of my views may have been misunderstood. So, please allow …

On “document-oriented messages” (whatever that means)

This post from Mark Nottingham is an interesting read.I particularly liked this: Why do Web services folks think it’s OK for end users to use XML Schema if it isn’t good enough for describing WSDL? (Referring to the WSDL WG’s decision to create a new component model for v2.0). Well …

Downtime warning!

There is going to be a complete power down over the weekend in our machine room to allow for some essential electrical work to take place. Power may be restored as early as Saturday or as late as Monday morning (UK time). As a result, Jim‘s and my blogs/sites and …

WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery in W3C

Hmmm… I am starting to suspect that the big companies already have a secret plan. Two submissions to W3C for specifications on how to address Web Services (WS-Addressing and WS-MD)? Surely, the consortium will not allow for two competing groups to be formed (I surely hope not). It seems that …

Versioning in an XML world

I don’t think I’ve ever linked to David Orchard’s great article on “Versioning XML Vocabularies”. I got reminded of it while reading “Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats” by Dare Obasanjo. Read more [...]

Jim on WebServices.org

WebServices.org has changed look. It also has a great line up of new contributors; amongst them, my best pal and colleague Jim. His first article is entitled “Web Services: REST in Peace?” which as always is a great read and highly recommended. Please note that the link to this article …

W3C WSDL 2.0 last call for comments

Back from holidays, back to base! Backlog of messages cleared, still going through backlog of blog entries. The W3CWSDL working group has published the working drafts for WSDL 2.0 part 1, part 2, and part 3. We have till 4 October 2004 to submit comments. Good reading everyone! Read more …