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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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WAGSSDA
For those doing work in the area of scientific data analysis in the context of Web Services/Grid, WAGSSDA is an interesting workshop to which you should consider sending your work.
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Arrived in Shanghai
I just arrived in Shanghai. For part of my journey from the airport (which is impressive) to my hotel I used Shanghai’s Maglev (non-contact Magnetic Elevation and propulsion). I didn’t know there was such a thing here before I arrived and now I know that it’s supposed to be the fastest in the world. The…
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Nemerle for .NET
Nemerle seems like a cool language. When we worked on the NIP runtime, Paul and I always assumed that a functional + objects programming language would be used by programmers to target it. Nemerle seems like a good candidate for demonstrating the benefits of NIP, if any 🙂 I should set some time aside to…
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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 *,…