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Building blocks of architectural paradigms
Since the publication of WS-Transfer, the discussion on REST vs WS has been intensified. Just google the terms and you’ll find lots of commentary. I would like to start this entry by just saying that comparing REST and Web Services…
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What makes a SOAP document a message
Mark Baker comments on Steve Maine‘s “Web Services Kernel” post and says: “A SOAP envelope is not a SOAP message, and pretending otherwise turns a perfectly good document wrapper into a perfectly crappy application protocol.” Hmmm… I think Mark makes…
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Jim’s article on “Why WSDL works”
I haven’t been bloging lately. I’ve been coding like crazy my WhiteDwarfs application. I’ll try to release something within the week. I’ve also been collecting some thoughts on resources vs services vs objects that I am going to blog about…
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Back home from a knee operation
Yesterday I had an operation on my knee. Everything went fine. Just got back home. Now some serious physiotherapy for few months. Hopefully, I will be able to ski again next year 🙂
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EPL
The EPL language for implementing event-based solutions using a declarative language. Interesting.
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An interesting exchange of comments…
… over at Mark Nottingham‘s recent blog entry on “Why POST is Special”.
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Reminder: Special issue on Web Services Architecture
The deadline for submissions is approaching.
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Three method calls that make all the difference
I’ve been coding like crazy the last few days 🙂 on an astronomy-related application. I had to remember lots of trigonometry from 15 years ago 🙁 The application is supposed to be a tool for discovering white dwarfs in our…
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W3C WS-Addressing WG
It was about time! The W3CWS-Addressing WG has been formed. Good luck to Mark who’s chairing it! This spec and SOAP are, to my mind, the most important in the WS world. Remember… It’s all about the message.
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Are resources the new objects? Proposal to rename “Web Services” to “Distributed Objects Revisited”
Yup, yet another spec; this time for managing resources. It’s called WS-Management and I guess it’s in direct competition with the WS-RF-based WS-Distributed Management (WS-DM). Oh well 🙁 It seems that this specification follows the recent trend to reason in…
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Sean McGrath and XML Pipelining
This presentation by Sean is very interesting. Recommended read.
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CORBA, Web Services, Indigo, XML, service-orientation, etc.
In case you haven’t been following these interesting discussions, here are some links (in no particular order and with more links in the posts)… Tim Ewald on “State of Web Services” and a follow on, on REST, and then on…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jim
It’s already past midnight in Sydney, early in the morning of Sunday, October 3. This means it’s Jim‘s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY mate!
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WS-Transfer and COM IUknown?
I don’t know the details of COM so I wouldn’t recognise the GUID for IUknown. I was suprised to see COM’s IUknown interface makes an appearance in the WS-Transfer specification. If you look at the second example the WS-Addressing MessageID…
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Utility computing centre closes
TheRegister reports that HP has killed its “utility computing experiment”. Was this doomed to fail or was it ahead of its time? I always believed that “Grid computing” was more about hype, politics, and marketing rather than technology. Here at…