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Discussion on WS-Addressing vs WS-MD
There is an interesting exchange of comments over on Jim‘s blog under his “If there’s one thing better than an addressing spec…” post. Looking for comments on Jim’s blog reminded me that I really need to implement RSS feeds for…
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An attempt to move on from “processThis”
The “processThis” idea that Jim and I have been discussing for some time now has won us a place in Mark Baker‘s progress highlights for Web Services. Like Jim, I too am flattered. This is really significant coming from someone…
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“Stateful Interactions in Web Services” article
Jim Webber, Mark Little, and I wrote an article on modelling stateful interactions in Web Services as soon as WS-RF was released. The article is now published in the May edition of the Web Services Journal. Happy reading. As always,…
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Back from holidays and away immediately
I am back from my holidays in Cuba. I had an excellent time, met lots of people, experienced the local culture, and visited many places. The people of Cuba are great; full with music and passion in their lives. It’s…
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Trackback not working but it’ll have to wait… it’s holiday time!!! 🙂
I just realised that my trackback engine works on my test installation but not on the live one 🙁 Don’t know why this is but I am afraid I don’t have time to fix it now. I am off to…
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“processThis” continued
Mark requests for clarification on my coupling argument between resource identity, the assumed representation (state), and the REST verbs in the “On the REST verbs vs “processThis” discussion” post. As always he makes a nice argument and thinks that an…
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“Web Services and the Grid: Convergence to Utility Computing” conference
I am going to be giving one of the main talks during the first day of this event (24-27 May) in London. If you are planning to go, let me know since I have registration forms that will give you…
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Too many trackbacks while testing 🙁
I’ve implemented full support for trackbacks in the pblog engine. However, due to a mistake while I was testing I may have sent few extra trackback notifications to some of the referenced posts from my existing entries. Those extra trackbacks…
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A studentship available for PhD students outside the UK
This is from the announcement of a studentship for the UK all-hands meeting 2004 in which I am involved. The UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting is the flagship meeting for dissemination within the UK of its e-science activities. Last…
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Microsoft’s documents on SOA and the Grid fascination with modelling state
I just found the “Application Conceptual View” collection of documents on the Microsoft site. I think that everyone in the Grid community should read the introduction. Here’s how a service is described: “Software services are discrete units of application logic…
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On the REST verbs vs “processThis” discussion
Since I returned from my unplanned 5 days of holiday, I am only now catching up with my blog feeds. Jim wrote (“REST Advocates in Hit-and-Run Guerrilla Insurgency” and “Bill de h’ra Upbeat, Mark Baker Upbeat, I’m Upbeat?”) about our…
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“Serializing an Object’s State != Serializing an Object”
This post by Dare Obasanjo makes an interesting read.
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More on “WSDL!=Object IDL” or “roundup revisited”
And the discussion continues. Following from Ted‘s blog entry, Steve Vinoskireplies. Also, following from Sean‘s “In a Swiss army knife, sometimes all you see is the knife” entry, Don Box gives his view in his “WSDL ?= IDL” post. Also,…
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“Why WSDL is not yet another object IDL” roundup
When Jim and I started writing the “Why WSDL is not yet another object IDL” article back in November (submitted for publication in December 2003), we had no idea of the reaction it would cause. People with large history in…
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pblog database schema changes and trackback support
I spent some time today playing with the pblog SQL Server database schema because I have some new features in mind I want to introduce in the future. One of the things I changed was the use of primary keys…