WS-Resource Framework released

Half of the WS-Resource Framework suite of specifications was made available from Globus and IBM today. Steps towards to the right direction were made (factorisation, lack of overloading of the term “service”, removal of Grid Service Handle/References, removal of Service Instance Factories). However, from an initial first look, it seems that the conceptual model remains the same as the one in OGSI (our views on that). I will come back to WS-Resource Framework when I have studied the specifications more closely.

Web Services systems management and the Grid

Last week, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Intel published a roadmap document about converging their WS specifications in the resource-orientation, events, and systems management space. There has already been some commentary about the roadmap (Ian Foster's "The Holy Grail: Industry-Wide System Management Standards at Last?", Jim's "The Emperor's Second Set of…

2006-03-20

Amazon S3

Very interesting service. I am curious to see how it's going to do commercially, especially given the free availability of GoogleBase (although mechanisms for programmatic interaction with the GoogleBase service have not been published yet, at least not ones that I am aware of). It's interesting to note the service's design.…

2006-03-15

Are resources the new objects? Proposal to rename “Web Services” to “Distributed Objects Revisited”

Yup, yet another spec; this time for managing resources. It's called WS-Management and I guess it's in direct competition with the WS-RF-based WS-Distributed Management (WS-DM). Oh well :-( It seems that this specification follows the recent trend to reason in terms of resources instead of services. I really enjoyed the…

2004-10-09