• “Searching for White Dwarfs” application

    In previous posts I mentioned our “Searching for White Dwarfs” application which was aimed at illustrating how “typical” Grid applications could be easily built using existing Web Services technologies and tools. I have now started putting some more information together…

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  • WSE 2.0 SP2 final

    Go get it.

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  • EPRs and the architectural elements they address

    But which are our architectural elements you may ask? Services or resources? I posted my thoughts over at the W3C mailing list. For those who have been following what Jim and I have been saying about OGSI, WSRF (and to…

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  • Using SAML for credential delegation

    The paper on “Extending the Security Assertion Markup Language to Support Delegation for Web Services and Grid Services” by Jun Wang and my friend Marty Humphrey over at the CS department, University of Virginia, is a great read. It illustrates…

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  • MSN Spaces

    I like this. The customisation options are really cool. My space is at http://spaces.msn.com/members/savas/. My concerns are: My current blog already has permanent links that I don’t want to loose. I don’t have complete control of my space. I am…

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  • RDF to filter WS-Eventing notifications?

    This is an interesting proposal. As Stefan (needs to sort out main page) says, WS-Eventing allows the use of any dialect for filters, so why not RDF? (Disappointed that my implementation efforts are not listed 🙂 (just joking of course).

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  • I find myself agreeing with Steve on this

    In addition to defining addressing-related information headers for SOAP messages, WS-Addressing introduces the concept of an EndpointReference (EPR) which is used as the means of capturing the addressing-related information of a service endpoint. I don’t see why an EPR couldn’t…

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  • A paper on “When Database Systems Meet the Grid”

    “To our knowledge, most of the data-intensive applications that run on the Grid today focus on moving hundreds of thousands of files from the storage archives to the thousands of computing nodes.” [1] The above quote is from [1] which…

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  • Tutorial on WS at WWW2005

    Hurray! Jim and I submitted a proposal for a tutorial on “Architecting and Developing Message-Oriented Web Services” for the 14th Internal World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) and we have just found out that it got accepted. This is going to…

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  • Globus to become part of Apache?

    I saw this submission/proposal by Globus over at aparche.org. The Globus Alliance is proposing the creation of an Apache subproject for Grid computing with the Globus Toolkit as the basis. My first feeling was that this could be a good…

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  • Making WinFX work on a non-Luna themes

    In one of the WinFX CTP articles it is noted that only the Luna/NormalColor theme is supported. In order to work with the other WindowsXP themes, there is a workaround. I just discovered that this workaround works with different themes…

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  • Article on WSDL 2.0

    Many are linking to the “WSDL 2: Just Say No” article by Rich Salz. Huge agreement!

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  • WS-Context made simple

    If you’ve never understood my explanation of what WS-Context (part of WS-CAF) is all about, here’s a short description from Mark.

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  • Dave Orchard on Web Services vs Distributed Objects

    I disagree with Dave‘s conclusions in his discussion on Web Services vs Distributed Objects. I have explained in my analysis of the differences between the HTTP verbs, remote method invocations, and message-orientation why I think there is a difference between…

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  • Adding to Aaron’s WSE wish list

    Aaron Skonnard posted his WSE 3.0 wish list. I meant to add to his list more than a week ago but didn’t get the chance. I will agree with Aaron’s and other people’s requests and I would like to add…

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