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Back home from a knee operation
Yesterday I had an operation on my knee. Everything went fine. Just got back home. Now some serious physiotherapy for few months. Hopefully, I will be able to ski again next year 🙂
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EPL
The EPL language for implementing event-based solutions using a declarative language. Interesting.
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An interesting exchange of comments…
… over at Mark Nottingham‘s recent blog entry on “Why POST is Special”.
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Reminder: Special issue on Web Services Architecture
The deadline for submissions is approaching.
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Three method calls that make all the difference
I’ve been coding like crazy the last few days 🙂 on an astronomy-related application. I had to remember lots of trigonometry from 15 years ago 🙁 The application is supposed to be a tool for discovering white dwarfs in our galaxy utilising information from astronomical archives (e.g. SDSS, SuperCOSMOS) through the use of Web Services.
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W3C WS-Addressing WG
It was about time! The W3CWS-Addressing WG has been formed. Good luck to Mark who’s chairing it! This spec and SOAP are, to my mind, the most important in the WS world. Remember… It’s all about the message.
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Are resources the new objects? Proposal to rename “Web Services” to “Distributed Objects Revisited”
Yup, yet another spec; this time for managing resources. It’s called WS-Management and I guess it’s in direct competition with the WS-RF-based WS-Distributed Management (WS-DM). Oh well 🙁 It seems that this specification follows the recent trend to reason in terms of resources instead of services. I really enjoyed the following while reading the WS-Management:
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Sean McGrath and XML Pipelining
This presentation by Sean is very interesting. Recommended read.
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CORBA, Web Services, Indigo, XML, service-orientation, etc.
In case you haven’t been following these interesting discussions, here are some links (in no particular order and with more links in the posts)… Tim Ewald on “State of Web Services” and a follow on, on REST, and then on CORBA and WS and more WS. Ted Neward comments on Don‘s and Steve‘s posts. Don
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jim
It’s already past midnight in Sydney, early in the morning of Sunday, October 3. This means it’s Jim‘s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY mate!