I just sent a message to various Web Services related mailing lists with a call for papers for a special edition of the International Journal of Web Services Research on the Web Services Architecture. You can find the call at http://ijwsr.ncl.ac.uk/. Jim and I are acting as editors and we …
/**/ In the post where I almost announced my move to the REST camp (Mark, thanks for the membership card, I hope you get well soon :-), I talked about services and messages as the only building blocks for building distributed applications according to the principles of service-orientation. I also …
/**/ 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 …
/**/ Steve Vinoski replies to my “Love the message campaign”. In his post, he explains that CORBA does not imply a particular implementation technology. Indeed, I cannot argue with that and I have no misconceptions that this is the case. One could implement CORBA using a procedural language, untyped, scripting …
This is very funny. From Lindsay.
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 …
Chris Ferris explains the changes from WS-I BP v1.0 to v1.1
/**/ Where is the Web Services world going to? I originally thought (wished) that Web Services technologies would be governed by the principles of service-orientation. I thought we were trying to realise an architecture where the focus was the service and the messages being exchanged, where policies and contracts allowed …
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 …
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 …
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 [...]
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 …
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 …