• Remotely logging Indigo messages using Indigo

    I had a couple of hours available while travelling by train to London the other day, so I decided to play with Indigo‘s message logging facility. Indigo does a great job of logging in/out SOAP messages to/from services. Check the…

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  • A generic class for implementing protocol handlers in Indigo

    In my “Indigo adventures” post I showed how one could write a new channel which can be used to implement a WS-* protocol. After watching the Indigo SDR content, I still think this to be the recommended way of implementing…

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  • Indigo SDR content

    All the content from the last Indigo Software Design Review (SDR) is now available online. I wish I knew about this before getting inside Indigo on my own. But then again, I wouldn’t have had the fun of finding problems…

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  • Indigo adventures

    Those interested in Indigo would have probably seen by now the many introductory posts on how to write services, use bindings, use output/input channels, service/message/data contracts, etc. The Indigo community is doing a fantastic job to provide examples of how…

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  • Glastonbury 2005

    Hurray! Managed to get tickets for this year’s Glastonbury. I am sooo looking forward to it.

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  • REST vs SOAP – “Apple and Oranges”

    I guess I may have to take back my comment that comparing REST and SOAP is like comparing apple and oranges 🙂 (via Paul Thurrott)

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  • “Architecting and Developing Message-Oriented Web Services” WWW2005 Tutorial

    May is fast approaching and Jim and I have been starting thinking about the details of our WWW2005 tutorial on architecting and developing message-oriented Web Services. In the original proposal we had suggested that we were going to use WSE…

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  • Vodafone’s vision

    I thought that some of the proposed directions were obvious but the delivery is great. (via Radovan)

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  • WSDM as a standard – the other side

    The commentary from Tim Bray (“Stop WSDM”), Grek Pavlik (“WSDM Standardization: Just Say No (For Now)”), Mark Little (“Why WSDM isn’t ready for primetime (yet)”), me, and I guess others made Mark Potts reply (“Response to Stop WSDM”). First, my…

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  • Random thoughts on Robert’s random thoughts

    In a discussion over at Sam Ruby‘s blog and on his “Distributed state machines” post, Robert Sayre made a random thought which I find intriguing. In a service-oriented world, like that promoted by MEST, where integration between services happens through…

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  • WS-Web (The Web using SOAP:-)

    Just joking… I haven’t come up with yet another specification. While travelling to Seoul, however, I was thinking about the on going discussion on REST vs SOAP. This is my small contribution to this discussion: An implementation of the ‘Web’…

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  • MyLifeBits video

    I’ve known about the MyLifeBits work for some time now. We have even had brainstorming sessions here in Newcastle on how we can relate future research work on large-scale distributed systems with the excellent work that Gordon Bell and his…

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  • Off to Korea and writing plans

    I am off to Seoul, Korea tomorrow for GGF 13. I am not particularly thrilled about it since the meetings have become more and more boring due to the politics and the uninteresting technical work that is taking place there.…

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  • This is why people have stopped believing in standards

    The OASIS WSDM TC has decided to submit the WSDM specifications as an OASIS standard despite the negative vote. This is really bad for Web Services standards. Greg Pavlik blogged about what has been happening in the TC (post 1,…

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  • Implementation of WS-Transfer

    Yesterday I was chatting with my friend Marty about WS-Transfer and the fact that we weren’t aware of any implementations out there. So, I challenged myself to write one in 30 mins using WSE. Well… it didn’t take 30 mins…

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