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Am I allowed to say “I told you so”?
An email to the WS-RFmailing list makes me want to say “I told you so”. Most times, loose-coupling and scalability don’t like explicit lifetime management of resources/objects even with tricks like heartbeats and leases.
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Using WS-Addressing to implement flow of messages between services (WSE 2.0 example)
How can we use existing infrastructure to define a flow of messages between services? The problem I have been asked this by many Grid folks in the context of workflow execution. There are many situations where one, using a workflow…
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My “start menu” profile
Jim asks about “start menu” profiles. Here’s mine: WindowsXP SP2: VS.NET 2005 Beta 1, VS.NET 2003, Word 2003, Outlook, Outlook Express (for the Monad newsgroup), Remote Desktop Connection, Powerpoint (!), Visio, Notepad, Cygwin, Internet Exlporer. My “All Programs” is organised…
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Using WSE and WS-Addressing to do “third-party delivery” for the Grid
Third-party delivery has been a major topic of discussion in the Grid community. I have been in so many presentations where one of the justifications for new protocols/specifications/toolkits was the need to deliver the results of a database query directly…
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Lindsay changed his feed!
Hurray!!!… Lindsay, who posts really interesting stuff (and lots lots of it every day), changed his feed 🙂 His feed only included the text of the entries without the links in order to force everybody to go to his page.…
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WSDL != object IDL (yes, again 🙂
I got a notification from the Web Services Journal about a new comment on the “Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL” that Jim and I wrote some time ago. The comment by Leo Golubovsky is really nice. After…
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WinFS for Longhorn, Spotlight for MacOS, and now DBFS for Linux
This is cool. I am looking forward to when all operating systems will move beyond the filesystem abstractions of today for the interaction with end users. So far… WinFS, Spotlight, and DBFS (just read about it). Does anyone know any…
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Grids vs SOAs
I don’t really agree with the “Grid == hardware solution” equation in this “Grid vs SOA” note over at Loosely Coupled but I do agree with the view that we can build Grid solutions using SOAs.
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x = 3; x += x++;
x = 3; x += x++; If you think you know the value of x in C#, then read the x += x++ post by Luca Bolognese (Eric Gunnerson‘s replacement) (subscribed).
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WS-Eventing and WS-Notification? WS-RF? The problem with the “logical recipient of a message” again.
I wonder what’s going on behind the scenes. The new version of WS-Eventing has IBM as a co-author. What does this suggest about WS-Notification? Could it be the case that WS-Eventing is going to be layered underneath WS-Notification or are…
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New version of WS-Eventing
I’ve been waiting for this new version of WS-Eventing before finalising and releasing the source code of my implementation. Expect more on this soon.
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International Journal of Web Services Research Call For Papers: Special Edition on Web Services Architecture
I just sent a message to various Web Services related mailing lists with a call for papers for a special edition of the International Journal of Web Services Research on the Web Services Architecture. You can find the call at…
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Resources vs services as the building blocks in architectures & where are the consumers?
In the post where I almost announced my move to the REST camp (Mark, thanks for the membership card, I hope you get well soon :-), I talked about services and messages as the only building blocks for building distributed…
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I am not against CORBA or Object-orientation
Mark Little and I exchanged comments, which you may find interesting, on my last entry. We continued the exchange over instant messaging. Mark’s understanding of distributed computing technologies is great. My discussion with him made me realise that some of…
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Yes, “CORBA objects are virtual” but they are still part of the architecture
Steve Vinoski replies to my “Love the message campaign”. In his post, he explains that CORBA does not imply a particular implementation technology. Indeed, I cannot argue with that and I have no misconceptions that this is the case. One…