There were some really good comments on my “Why I think AJAX breaks REST” post to which I tried to reply. The reason for this new post was Andrew Newman’s comments. I disagree with Andrew on his assertion that REST is only about how services should be exposed. I think that …
August 31 today; last day of the month and my last working day at the University. The time does go fast. It was 9 years and 11 months (not 10 years :-) since I first landed in Prof. Santosh Shrivastava’s office for an interview. Few days later I started the advanced …
/**/ As previously promised, I worked on some more changes for pblog: The RSS 2.0 feed has moved. The previous link will continue to work though. If you are subscribed to my blog through the RSS 2.0 feed, you shouldn’t encounter any problems. The Atom 0.3 has moved. The previous …
The recent interest in AJAX (or however else people prefer to call client-side applications hosted in web browsers) has made me thinking about its relation to REST. Its current popularity for building Web applications is indisputable since all major players in the Web applications space build and/or experiment with applications …
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The talks for the MWS 2005 workshop look interesting (and I am not just saying that because I am a member of the Program Committee). I am curious about the “WSODL – An Object-Oriented Specification for RPC-Based Web Services” one. Hmmm! I’ll be looking for the paper/presentation once it becomes available. What …
Yesterday and after I posted the sort entry with my views on MEST vs REST, Simon, Aad, Einar, and I watched the live webcast of the ACM Turing Lecture. This year the award was given to Vinton G. Cerf and Robert Kahn for their work on TCP/IP. It was an interesting …
When I announced my decision to join Microsoft, Don Box asked the question: “East side or West side”? Well, the time to decide is not far now. I will be living in a Microsoft-provided flat for few weeks while trying to find my own place. I am thinking of renting …
This recent post by Dare Obasanjo (whom I am hoping to get the chance to meet when I get to Microsoft) reminded me that I need to start preparing my MEST vs REST arguments for HPTS. I now know that because of my position paper on why service-orientation, and particularly …
/**/ Dan Fay just pointed me to two very interesting “Request for Proposals” (RFPs). If you are into e-Science and data management you should check these out: Microsoft Research Smart Clients for eScience Request for Proposals Microsoft Research Digital Memories (Memex) Request for Proposals Here in Newcastle we have been …
Finally, an interesting blogosphere discussion with the Web/REST folks, like the old days. This time the culprit is WS-Addressing and its SOAP binding. Mark sees a potential problem with WS-Addressing and the SOAP/HTTP binding. Jim added his thoughts and here are mine… I think that Mark misses an important aspect of WS-Addressing and its …
Many have reported that the WS-Coordination, WS-AT, and WS-BA specs have been updated which cool. Jorgen says that this is hopefully their final update before going to OASIS which is also cool. Now, when we reach OASIS, how about making sure that there is a single set of coordination/transactions-related specs? I …
/**/ Part 1 of this two-part post briefly introduced Dynasoar and how Virtual Machines could be used as the unit for service deployment. As Tim Freeman correctly pointed out in his comment, there is plenty of VM-related work out there. I didn’t want to suggest that our work on VMs …
Well done to Mark and the rest of the group for a job well done! It took much much longer than expected but such is life in standards committees. The two W3C candidate recommendations: WS-Addressing Core WS-Addressing SOAP binding We have until November 1 this year to submit comments. So, …
/**/ I’ve started HTML-encoding the blog’s title in the RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds that pblog generates. I did this because RSS Bandit had a problem with the title of my blog (“<savas:blog />”). Please let me know if your aggregator has problems with this (i.e. if the title …
/**/ There was a Dragon Boat race yesterday on the Tyne (the river that goes through Newcastle… hence, “Newcastle upon Tyne” :-) Some 21 people, mostly from Computing Science, formed the University of Newcastle “Dragon & Drop” team :-) None of us were rowers. We did it just for the …