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Jim Gray on “Computing’s Breakthroughs, Lessons, and Future”
An interview with Jim Gray at the IEEE Distributed Systems online.
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In case you’ve missed it…
There are a couple of comments from Mark Baker in one of my previous posts.
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A few months-old WSE 2.0 article
I wanted to refresh my understanding of Microsoft’s Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0, so I started reading an old article by Aaron Skonnard. It’s really nice. I particularly liked the second paragraph: “The popularity of the WebMethod framework and others…
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Just noticed that my archives calendar control is not working as it should be
Doh! Need to fix this. I must have messed up something two days ago. Will fix it as soon as I get some free time. Updated: 03 Feb 2004 – 01:18 – Fixed! Some postback issues.
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The new paragraph on REST and some more comments
Following from my previous post, here is the revised (again) paragraph that Jim Webber and I agreed on. There have been proposals for naming and uniformly providing access to resources, such as the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) [24] model. However,…
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More comments from Mark Baker
Mark responds to my previous post regarding our revised paragraph on REST. His points are taken into consideration and Jim Webber and I will work to further revise it. I will publish it here as soon as we have something…
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Doh! Should be more careful when deleting spam messages.
I receive so much spam. My Outlook filter does not catch everything so I am used to permanently deleting them by pressing Shift+Del. It’s become such a routine that sometimes I accidentally delete non-spam messages and there is no way…
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Don Box on Objects and Services
Don Box talks about services and objects.
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Cool… a Mars rovers blog…
You can find it here (subscribed!).
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Mark Baker refers to our WS-GAF document
Mark Baker discovered our work on the Web Services Grid Application Framework (WS-GAF) and he thinks it’s interesting. I am glad. We think our work from back in August was influential in all the recent changes in the Grid community…
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Dare Obasanjo on “Service Oriented Architectures vs. Distributed Object Technologies”
Dare Obasanjo comments on a James Robertson’s post entitled “MS to Objects: ‘Drop Dead’”. Then James Robertson responded. I found these links from Mark Baker’s weblog where he provides his view on the above. I am sympathetic to Mark’s views…
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Anders Hejlsberg about C#
I just read part VII of Anders Hejlsberg’s interview at artima.com about C#. This part is about generics in C#. His explanation on how C# generics are different from Java’s and C++’s is very interesting. The links to the previous…
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“The Future of Grid and Web Services” and a chat with Steve Tuecke
Just returned from a UK e-Science event on the “The Future of Grid and Web Services” that Malcolm Atkinson organised. It was very interesting. Some 90 people where there. Steve Tuecke presented WS-RF and their motivation. Afterwards, I was invited…
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Don Box on Object-Orientation
Few comments by Don Box but not great deal of detail.
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Eric Newcomer on WS-RF again
Eric identifies the intended use of WS-RF and WS-Context as their main difference (addressing of state vs interaction state management). I agree that WS-Addressing + local-to-the-service information is a way to identify explicitly exposed resources. But then we have to…