Categories: REST in PracticeSSDLWebWeb Services

SSDL.org contents online again

A recent question at the REST in Practice discussion group, reminded me of the research work that Jim and I did on the SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL). It was an active time of discussions with the Web Services community. We really disliked WSDL and we really liked REST. We had come up with an architectural style called “MEST”. We wanted to demonstrate the ideas of message-orientation and declaratively description of protocols in service-oriented applications, so we came up with SSDL. A number of researchers got involved and papers were written. It was a lot of fun.

We created ssdl.org and published all the information there. Unfortunately, over the years we let the domain expire so there is no record on the Internet of the SSDL web site ever existing. The domain is now used for a completely different purpose. So, I decided to republish the contents of ssdl.org for historical reasons.

Of course the world has moved on. Since then we wrote REST in Practice, SOAP is all but irrelevant today, and we are all enjoying our professional lives by doing something different 🙂

Savas Parastatidis

Savas Parastatidis works at Amazon as a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI'. Previously, he worked at Microsoft where he co-founded Cortana and led the effort as the team's architect. While at Microsoft, Savas also worked on distributed data storage and high-performance data processing technologies. He was involved in various e-Science projects while at Microsoft Research where he also investigated technologies related to knowledge representation & reasoning. Savas also worked on language understanding technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at Newcastle University where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. You can find out more about Savas at https://savas.me/about