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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…

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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)…

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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……

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I just noticed that Jim is going to be talking about MEST and SSDL. If you happen to be around Sydney on September 7, don’t miss this. Jim is an excellent speaker. BTW, it’s time for the long-promised MEST paper. Jim and…

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(Back from an unplanned week of ‘working-holidays’ in Greece… had an excellent time) It’s not news to Computing Science folks that in many cases concurrency and distributed computing face the same problems. Theoreticians may even say that the two domains do…

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About Axis 2.0 again (via Mark Baker’s blog). This page describes how “RESTful Web Services” are supported by Axis 2.0. “REST is providing access to the resources through the two methods GET and POST. The REST Web services are reduced subset…

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Sanjiva has a new company: WSO2. From the company’s frontpage: “We are creating an uncompromising middleware platform for Web services which treats Web services as first class components instead of as a facade to some existing platform like J2EE. Apache…

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The “Web Services Messaging with Apache Axis2: Concepts and Techniques” article is a good introductory read for those who are still trying to understand the difference between explicit (SOAP-based) messaging and Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)! I don’t think I need…

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Here’s something fun I’ve been working on lately (relates to something I blogged about back in November 2004). Motivation Dynasoar is a research effort within NEReSC to define a service-oriented architecture for the dynamic deployment and hosting of services on…

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Sam Aaron (one of our PhD students here in Newcastle) is having some fun with the photos from my web site and his new toy application. Very cool 🙂

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