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Visiting MS
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…
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More good news for the WS-* story
In addition to the single reliable-messaging story, there appears to be a similar development in the single sign-on space. Excellent news!
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Wil O’Mullane in Newcastle
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…
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WS-RX as an example for WS-TXs
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…
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Holidays over, back in the UK
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…
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Just booked flights for two weeks of holidays and work in progress
I haven’t had proper holidays for a long long time. So, Wednesday I am going back to Greece to visit my family and travel a bit around to see friends in various cities. It may be a while after this…
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Coactus – Good luck to Mark
Coactus consultancy! Mark, perhaps a section on MEST and Web Services? 🙂
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What does “WS-I compliance” mean?
Ever since we published our WS-GAF white paper criticizing OGSI, its object-oriented nature and how it (ab)used existing technologies (XML Schema and WSDL), there has been a lot of discussion in the Grid community about WS-I. You see, we’ve always…
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The 3D star browser in our VR facility
Old readers of my blog will know that I have been experimenting with Avalon by building a 3D star browser using the Sload Digitial Sky Survey data. I have ported the previous version of the StarBrowser to the Avalon March 2005…
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MEST music
This may be an album I may buy. I just happen to like the name of the group 🙂
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Steve, Mark, and Stefan on REST/WS
The discussion on REST/WS is still very much alive. There is an interesting thread of comments in Steve Vinoski‘s “WS references” post. Note the references to “ProcessThis”. I wouldn’t have made the link between “ProcessMessage/This” with protocol handlers or interceptors…
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MEST, an operation, and the role of contracts
The discussion on MEST started again thanks to a recent entry by Jim. Mark makes some valid observations in his comment to Jim’s entry. I would like to clarify a couple of things: MEST is an architectural style and as…
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2005 Middleware for Web Services Workshop CFP
This seems like it’s going to be a very interesting workshop taking place in conjunction with the 9th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference. Put those fingers on the keyboard and start typing 🙂 The call for papers.
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The “Architecting and Developing Message-Oriented Web Services” WWW2005 Tutorial is not happening 🙁
Thanks to those of you who registered for our WWW2005 tutorial. Unfortunately the attendance numbers for the conference seem to be quite low and, as a result, many tutorials (ours included) have been cancelled 🙁 Sorry guys. I was looking…
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SSDL Computing Science Technical Reports
The following SSDL-related documents are now available in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Computing Science Technical Reports series: CS-TR-898: An Introduction to the SOAP Service Description Language (PDF) CS-TR-899: The SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL) (PDF) CS-TR-900: MEP SSDL Protocol Framework…