• The relationship between SOAs and Web Services (book chapter on the way)

    This is a nice post from Mark Nottingham. He talks about the lack of a good understanding of the architectural issues when we talk about Web Services. I think Mark makes a very good point. Jim and I have been thinking about this for the last couple of months and although we haven’t really blogged…

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  • Sidebar

    I always wanted to have a sidebar on my desktop which aggregates information and allows various actions to be just one click away. I know Linux users had sidebars for sometime but I never found one for WindowsXP I was happy with. I even started a VS.NET project to create one on my own but…

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  • Why I believe REST is not far from “ProcessMessage” or document-centric WS

    Mark Baker linked to this post which talks about how to access O’Reilly’s Safari Bookshelf using a REST API and has some example Java code. This post made me think about the relationship between the “ProcessMessage” approach that Jim and I have been advocating and REST. Are we that far apart? Well, I don’t think…

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  • “Streaming messages” in Web Services

    As part of my involvement in the activities of the Grid community, I’ve heard many times about yet another requirement that is “specific” to the Grid and requires special infrastructure and new toolkits: streaming. It is true that there is no WS-* specification I am aware of that deals explicitly with the streaming of messages…

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  • Hey… why don’t I have one of these?

    This prediction for the home computer of 2004 came from Lindsay.

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  • Great discussion on “ProcessMessage” and REST

    Over at Jim‘s blog, there is a great discussion on the differences between REST and “ProcessMessage” which started as a reply to Mark Baker‘s question.

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  • WS-Transfer: I must be missing something (and I feel lonely)

    It must be me… I can’t explain it otherwise. I must have the wrong understanding. First, it was the Grid community with OGSI and their non-standard-based, object-oriented approach to building Grid Services, then it was WS-RF with their resource-oriented view of the world and their state lifetime management, and now it’s WS-Transfer which looks like…

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  • Here’s a WSA paper

    The “Introduction to the Web Services Architecture and its Specifications” attempts to bring all the Microsoft supported WS-* specs together.

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  • New WS-*specs (or, how you can count on MS to make things difficult for you)

    Two new specs have been just released: WS-Transfer (the REST folks will have a field day with this) and WS-Enumeration. Let me start with the second one first… For the last few days I’ve been working on demonstrating how to implement “streaming” of messages in Web Services. I completed the WSE code for it and…

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  • Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside

    I linked to Pat Helland‘s “Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside” in the past (don’t remember if it was an earlier version) but I just saw it again on MSDN so I encourage everyone to go and read it; especially if you do any work in the Grid.

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