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Off travelling again
I am off to Shanghai, China, to present a paper at IEEE SCC04 that Jim and I wrote few months ago. The paper is called “Assessing the Risk and Value of Adopting Emerging and Unstable Web Services Specifications” and a version of it is available as a Computing Science Technical Report (CS-TR-851). Of course, given…
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Am I allowed to say “I told you so”?
An email to the WS-RFmailing list makes me want to say “I told you so”. Most times, loose-coupling and scalability don’t like explicit lifetime management of resources/objects even with tricks like heartbeats and leases.
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Using WS-Addressing to implement flow of messages between services (WSE 2.0 example)
How can we use existing infrastructure to define a flow of messages between services? The problem I have been asked this by many Grid folks in the context of workflow execution. There are many situations where one, using a workflow language (the e-Science community has many of these), wants to describe a flow of messages…
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My “start menu” profile
Jim asks about “start menu” profiles. Here’s mine: WindowsXP SP2: VS.NET 2005 Beta 1, VS.NET 2003, Word 2003, Outlook, Outlook Express (for the Monad newsgroup), Remote Desktop Connection, Powerpoint (!), Visio, Notepad, Cygwin, Internet Exlporer. My “All Programs” is organised into these folders (I like it organised and hierarchal rather than flat): Development (VS.NET *,…
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Using WSE and WS-Addressing to do “third-party delivery” for the Grid
Third-party delivery has been a major topic of discussion in the Grid community. I have been in so many presentations where one of the justifications for new protocols/specifications/toolkits was the need to deliver the results of a database query directly to a third party and how this is not possible with current WS technologies. I…
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Lindsay changed his feed!
Hurray!!!… Lindsay, who posts really interesting stuff (and lots lots of it every day), changed his feed 🙂 His feed only included the text of the entries without the links in order to force everybody to go to his page. I understand his motivation. Feeds were originally meant to announce the publication of a new…
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WSDL != object IDL (yes, again 🙂
I got a notification from the Web Services Journal about a new comment on the “Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL” that Jim and I wrote some time ago. The comment by Leo Golubovsky is really nice. After googling for a link to the original article, I run across other posts on the…
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WinFS for Longhorn, Spotlight for MacOS, and now DBFS for Linux
This is cool. I am looking forward to when all operating systems will move beyond the filesystem abstractions of today for the interaction with end users. So far… WinFS, Spotlight, and DBFS (just read about it). Does anyone know any other related technologies?
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Grids vs SOAs
I don’t really agree with the “Grid == hardware solution” equation in this “Grid vs SOA” note over at Loosely Coupled but I do agree with the view that we can build Grid solutions using SOAs.
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x = 3; x += x++;
x = 3; x += x++; If you think you know the value of x in C#, then read the x += x++ post by Luca Bolognese (Eric Gunnerson‘s replacement) (subscribed).