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Tim Ewald on WS operations
Tim Ewald suggests that Web Services only have 4 simple operations (input, output, input/output, output/input). I think that Tim really gets it but I would have to disagree with this particular comment since I don’t see these as operations; I…
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The relationship between SOAs and Web Services (book chapter on the way)
This is a nice post from Mark Nottingham. He talks about the lack of a good understanding of the architectural issues when we talk about Web Services. I think Mark makes a very good point. Jim and I have been…
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Sidebar
I always wanted to have a sidebar on my desktop which aggregates information and allows various actions to be just one click away. I know Linux users had sidebars for sometime but I never found one for WindowsXP I was…
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Why I believe REST is not far from “ProcessMessage” or document-centric WS
Mark Baker linked to this post which talks about how to access O’Reilly’s Safari Bookshelf using a REST API and has some example Java code. This post made me think about the relationship between the “ProcessMessage” approach that Jim and…
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“Streaming messages” in Web Services
As part of my involvement in the activities of the Grid community, I’ve heard many times about yet another requirement that is “specific” to the Grid and requires special infrastructure and new toolkits: streaming. It is true that there is…
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Hey… why don’t I have one of these?
This prediction for the home computer of 2004 came from Lindsay.
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Great discussion on “ProcessMessage” and REST
Over at Jim‘s blog, there is a great discussion on the differences between REST and “ProcessMessage” which started as a reply to Mark Baker‘s question.
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WS-Transfer: I must be missing something (and I feel lonely)
It must be me… I can’t explain it otherwise. I must have the wrong understanding. First, it was the Grid community with OGSI and their non-standard-based, object-oriented approach to building Grid Services, then it was WS-RF with their resource-oriented view…
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Here’s a WSA paper
The “Introduction to the Web Services Architecture and its Specifications” attempts to bring all the Microsoft supported WS-* specs together.
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New WS-*specs (or, how you can count on MS to make things difficult for you)
Two new specs have been just released: WS-Transfer (the REST folks will have a field day with this) and WS-Enumeration. Let me start with the second one first… For the last few days I’ve been working on demonstrating how to…
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Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside
I linked to Pat Helland‘s “Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside” in the past (don’t remember if it was an earlier version) but I just saw it again on MSDN so I encourage everyone to go and…
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WAGSSDA
For those doing work in the area of scientific data analysis in the context of Web Services/Grid, WAGSSDA is an interesting workshop to which you should consider sending your work.
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Arrived in Shanghai
I just arrived in Shanghai. For part of my journey from the airport (which is impressive) to my hotel I used Shanghai’s Maglev (non-contact Magnetic Elevation and propulsion). I didn’t know there was such a thing here before I arrived…
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Nemerle for .NET
Nemerle seems like a cool language. When we worked on the NIP runtime, Paul and I always assumed that a functional + objects programming language would be used by programmers to target it. Nemerle seems like a good candidate for…
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Off travelling again
I am off to Shanghai, China, to present a paper at IEEE SCC04 that Jim and I wrote few months ago. The paper is called “Assessing the Risk and Value of Adopting Emerging and Unstable Web Services Specifications” and a…