May 2005

I finally updated the SSDL site with the versions of the documents published as University of Newcastle upon Tyne Computing Science Technical Reports. Let me know of any problems.

/**/ This is very interesting! The W3C has started a mailing list (subscribed) to discuss Web description formats. Mark Nottingham is asking in his “Web Description at the W3C” post whether some Web Services folks are probably “seeing the light” about the Web. However, what if it is the other …

I am really glad to see the “Rethinking the Java SOAP Stack” paper being released to a wider audience. Steve and Edmund have written a great paper describing the Alpine-style for Web Services development. Now, if only Alpine incorporated SSDL as the description language of choice :-) Read more [...]

The WinFX Beta 1 RC SDK is now available (there is a link to the ISO further down the page). There are lots of samples for both Avalon and Indigo but you need to extract them manually. After I installed the SDK I found a number of directories with samples …

Jim and I received good news about our submitted chapter to an upcoming MIT Press book on service-oriented computing. The feedback was very good. The chapter, entitled “Realising Service-Oriented Architectures with Web Services”, focuses on architectural principles for building service-oriented systems and then moves on to discuss how Web Services …

I read today in the Indigo newsgroup that the Indigo and Avalon Beta 1 runtime is now available for download. This version will play nicely with the .NET version we get when VS.NET Beta 2 is installed. I successfully performed all the necessary uninstall/install steps and so now continue my …

/**/ After my holidays and my trip to Seattle I am now finally slowly catching up with email and blogs. So, I once again had a little bit of time to have some fun with Indigo. (Expect more frequent posting from now on. Amongst other things, there has been lots …

What an excellent, geek-friendly idea :-) (Stratos, via email)

/**/ I am at the Seattle Tacoma Airport waiting to get back to the UK. As I said in a previous post, I came to Seattle for a short visit. The reason?… An interview with Microsoft. I’ve already mentioned that I was planning to move on from Newcastle and that …

In addition to the single reliable-messaging story, there appears to be a similar development in the single sign-on space. Excellent news!

In early June Wil O’Mullane will be coming to visit us here in Newcastle and he’s also going to be giving a talk as part of our School’s colloquia series. I am really looking forward to seeing Wil again. He’s part of the team responsible for the SkyServer and the …

As I am catching up with blogs and industry news, I saw the announcement by OASIS that the new TC being formed (WS-RX) will result in a single story in the WS reliable-messaging space, effectively resulting in merge of the competing reliable-messaging specifications. This is great news. There is lots …

/**/ I am back in the UK. As I previously mentioned, I went to Greece for a couple of weeks of holidays. Unfortunately, as soon as I arrived there I had a big setback in my personal life:-( Family and friends were very supportive and they all helped in making sure …