• Related to my last post

    After I posted my previous entry, I read Jeff Frey’s response to one of Mark Little’s messages. Jeff’s message confirms my last post’s assertion about the tight-coupling of a resource’s state, its identity, and an interface. According to Jeff, they…

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  • A brief thought on WS-RF

    My friend Jim from “down under” told me today over messenger that my blog is “more of a social diary than a blog”. So, here’s a thought on WS-RF with which I think he will agree… I think from now…

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  • SFMOMA

    In every city I visit, one of the first things I go to see is that city’s modern art museum. Due to other commitments, I only managed to visit San Francisco’s during my last day here. The “San Francisco Museum…

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  • Dinner with Mark Potts

    As I mentioned few days ago, I had dinner with Mark Potts from HP last night. It was really nice to see Mark again and find out how well he is doing. He totally deserves it. I was also glad…

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  • More messages by Eric Newcomer and Mark Little

    Eric and Mark have been doing distributed computing for years. It’s great to see their comments (msg1, msg2, msg3) and I am glad that our views are the same as theirs. If people didn’t listen to our views, they may…

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  • Discussions on WS-RF have started

    I am still trying to assimilate all the information but people have already starting posting questions. It’s going to be fun.

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  • Comments from Mark Potts on WS-Notification

    WS-Notification is part of the WS-ResourceFramework. Mark Potts, distinguished technologist at HP, has made comments about WS-Notification in this article. (Thanks to my boss, Paul Watson, for pointing this out). I know Mark from my HP days. He is a…

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  • Brief comment by Eric Newcomer on WS-RF

    Eric posted to the WS-CAF mailing list a brief comment on WS-RF. His comments are very much inline with what we’ve been saying since August 2003 as part of our WS-GAF proposal. The message was also forwarded in the OGSI-WG…

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  • I was reassured that our WS-GAF ideas are correct

    I just got out of a loooong session with the authors of the WS-Resource Framework specs. From what I’ve heard, I am now reassured that our WS-GAF ideas were all spot on. In fact, many of the things we have…

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  • Mark Baker agrees

    I should have added to my previous post that Mark agrees with the approach of building distributed applications around the concept of resources (identity+interface+state)… but that’s to be expected given Mark’s view on REST.

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  • Mark Baker on the WS-Resource spec

    Although Marksees it from a REST point of view, I agree with him about the coupling of identity plus interface plus state. They are re-inventing distributed objects.

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  • WS-Resource Framework released

    Half of the WS-Resource Framework suite of specifications was made available from Globus and IBM today. Steps towards to the right direction were made (factorisation, lack of overloading of the term “service”, removal of Grid Service Handle/References, removal of Service…

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  • Mars-related photos…

    Another one 🙂

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  • Starbuck’s on Mars!

    I saw this “Mars-Seattle humour picture” on Robert Scole’s blog.

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