• My first spam comment!

    It was going to happen sometime! A spam comment on one of my posts and I still haven’t released the trackback enabled version of the pblog engine.

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  • “Today’s blog hero…”

    …Jim 🙂 because he finally got a proper feed.

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  • Wow! 1090 messages!!!

    I decided to take a break away from my computer after a long time. Didn’t touch the thing for 5 days. Went to Paris with my girlfriend and had a brilliant time. Now I am in a hotel in Amsterdam…

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  • “IDL is as IDL does”

    Totally agree with David Orchard‘s comments in his “IDL is as IDL does” entry, which refers to our “Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL” article. As I said in my reply to Mark Little’s comment, Jim and I…

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  • A WSDL document does not define operation semantics

    I had to read this post a number of times to make sure that there wasn’t something I missed since I find myself agreeing with Mark 🙂 (just joking Mark… we’ve agreed before, I think :-). A WSDL document will…

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  • Discussion on OGSA adopting WSRF as its infrastructure and the “Search for White Dwarfs”

    A discussion has taken place in the OGSA WG mailing list on whether the OGSA platform should be based on WS-RF. We contributed our views supporting the adoption of only stable specifications but the group decided in favour of WS-RF.…

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  • “The Secret Source of Google’s Power”

    An interesting read. Thanks to Brian Randell for the link.

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  • “Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL”

    Jim and I wrote an article few months ago that was just published in the Web Services Journal called “Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL“. We even had some feedback… “very poor” by James Greeve. However, he didn’t…

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  • Doh doh doh!

    I am sorry but due to stupidity I managed to loose all my posts and your comments since March 18. A combination of mistakes during my efforts to update my pblog engine (after Jim‘s request to have a “from location”…

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  • Sean McGrath on the “fallacy of business objects”

    This is an interesting read (by Sean McGrath). I also enjoyed reading one of the references in his article on “Object have failed” by (Richard P. Gabriel).

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  • Is it a Web Service or not? (cont’d)

    Mark follows on from my previous post. He suggests that clients should determine what they want to do with the returned document “based on the type of the document”. Mark gives this as a reason for not having to define,…

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  • Is it a Web Service or not?

    🙂 Mark Baker blogs about “the iTunes music store and the non-browser Web”. He writes: So let me understand… ITMS is presenting an HTTP/URI based interface intended for use by automata, and not human-controlled browsers? How is such a thing…

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  • ObjectSpaces in .NET

    Some time ago I blogged about ObjectSpaces. Here’s some more information about it from Ryan Dawson blog.

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  • Eric Newcomer on UML and MDA

    Eric posted some comments on the use of UML and MDA. This is the last paragraph of his post… (And no, I don’t think either UML or MDA is very well suited to using for Web services, either. Class diagrams…

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  • The “Service Network”

    I personally see both the “message” and the “protocol” as part of Service-Oriented Architectures but Jeff Schneider sees a difference. Hmmm… Can’t make up my mind now but this post is worth a read. Also, if you haven’t seen it,…

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