November 2004

Just saw this over at Jim‘s. Grek Pavlik is blogging (subscribed).

I read this over at Ted Neward’s blog. JWSDP 1.5 is available. I read a couple of articles on this and I was happy to see that Sun’s framework allows message-oriented implementations of Web Services. It also supports WS-Security which is interoperable with WSE. Cool. Read more [...]

Yup… The same old story. Are Web Services technologies going to help us build distributed, object-oriented applications or are we going to use them to build service-oriented systems? My preference for the latter is well known. Tim makes some interesting comments on this topic. Amongst others, he mentions the lack …

Mark Baker challenges those of us who believe that a sensible architecture can be designed without depending on a particular (transport/transfer/network) protocol. In fact, Jim and I are doing exactly that in our next paper which is going to have the more thorough description of MEST. More soon! Read more …

/**/ MEST is for service-orientation and Web Services what REST is for resource-orientation and the Web. The above quote is taken from the paper that Jim and I have just completed. We decided to finally write down our ideas on ProcessMessage, service-orientation, and Web Services. The paper was submitted to …

I hadn’t noticed that the Microsoft HPC site went live. Cool stuff for doing distributed, high-performance computing on the Microsoft platform. Very cool. I actually submitted my CV for one of the HPC posts when the team was forming few months ago but never heard from Microsoft :-(

John did it again. Have fun with the wiki.wsefaq.com.

/**/ While discussing the production service logic deployment I mentioned in my previous post, I thought that it’d be nice to apply the idea of dynamic service logic deployment for caching purposes. That is, not caching of SOAP documents but of the service logic. This could be useful in mobile …

In the last month or so we have started an effort here in Newcastle at NEReSC to build and deploy a production service for our application scientists. We want to utilise all the computational resources around the campus and eventually integrate our infrastructure with the UK National Grid. Of course …

Great stuff over at the W3CWS-Addressingmailing list. You should definitely follow the discussion there.

Just saw that v2.0 of Microsoft‘s WS architecture document was released. Haven’t read it yet.

/**/ I’ve spent few days trying to figure out why when I change the WS-Addressing information of an outgoing SOAP message from an output WSE filter, the changes are not picked up by the underlying SOAP transport used. Well, after lots of experimentation and an IM discussion with John Bristowe …

Cool. I just got a referral from Mark Potts’ first entry from his brand new blog (subscribed of course). I met Mark during my HP days when I was trying to get my head around the work on transactions in the Web Services space, as part of the OASIS BTP …