• WS-Addressing discussions

    Great stuff over at the W3CWS-Addressingmailing list. You should definitely follow the discussion there.

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  • v2.0 of the “An Introduction to the Web Services Architecture and Its Specifications”

    Just saw that v2.0 of Microsoft‘s WS architecture document was released. Haven’t read it yet.

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  • Channel and Pipeline ordering in WSE

    I’ve spent few days trying to figure out why when I change the WS-Addressing information of an outgoing SOAP message from an output WSE filter, the changes are not picked up by the underlying SOAP transport used. Well, after lots…

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  • Mark Potts!

    Cool. I just got a referral from Mark Potts‘ first entry from his brand new blog (subscribed of course). I met Mark during my HP days when I was trying to get my head around the work on transactions in…

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  • Deadline for Special Issue

    Since my last post about the JWSRspecial issue on the Web Services Architecture, we had a couple of requests for extension. So I think that it’s only fair to give an extension to everyone. However, due to the tight schedule…

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  • Stateful services (yes, again!)

    There was a question on “stateful Web Services” over at the w3c-ws mailing list. Of course, I couldn’t resist not making a comment 🙂 However, I used a politically incorrect phrase about the demise of OGSI (“miserable failure”) and I…

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  • Yes, WSE 2.1 please!

    Please Microsoft. As Clemenssays, we need WSE 2.1 with an updated version of WS-Addressing to match the current spec. I’ve stopped my WS-Eventing implementation because of that reason.

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  • On wsa:action

    While reading the 3rd part of the factored WS-Addressing spec, it occurred to me that the discussion on how to associate wsa:action headers with messages in WSDL operations or how to implicitly generate them could be simplified by having just…

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  • Bill on “ABOUT / HTTP/1.2”

    This is an interesting post by Bill de hOra.

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  • “Can OO be SO?” by Tim Ewald

    Commenting on Clemens Vasters‘ post, to which I linked in my previous entry, Tim Ewald remembers (“Can OO be SO?“) that at the last PDC someone had asked Don Box about the use of EPRs as CORBA IORs 🙂 Back…

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  • I am not alone after all

    Here’s a post by Clemens Vasters saying what I’ve been saying for some time about the use of WS-Addressing as an object pointer 🙂

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  • Deadline for the special edition is coming

    The deadline for the special edition on Web Services Architecture of the Journal of Web Services Research is very close now. If you are thinking of submitting a paper but would like some more time, please drop me or Jim…

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  • Protocol independence comments by Steve Maine

    There is a very good discussion taking place between Steve (post 1, post 2) and Mark (post 1, post 2). I agree with Steve on most points, except the need for an action header 🙂

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  • Spot the difference

    I just spotted the “spot the difference challenge” (sorry Mark)… I’ll bite. What’s the difference? I don’t personally see one. The ProcessMessage “operation” is all about processing of messages. It’s all about an agent sending a message to another agent…

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