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I am not against CORBA or Object-orientation
Mark Little and I exchanged comments, which you may find interesting, on my last entry. We continued the exchange over instant messaging. Mark’s understanding of distributed computing technologies is great. My discussion with him made me realise that some of my views may have been misunderstood. So, please allow me to clarify the following… I…
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Yes, “CORBA objects are virtual” but they are still part of the architecture
Steve Vinoski replies to my “Love the message campaign”. In his post, he explains that CORBA does not imply a particular implementation technology. Indeed, I cannot argue with that and I have no misconceptions that this is the case. One could implement CORBA using a procedural language, untyped, scripting language if they wanted, say CORBA/tcl-tk…
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Umbilical brothers
This is very funny. From Lindsay.
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On “document-oriented messages” (whatever that means)
This post from Mark Nottingham is an interesting read.I particularly liked this: Why do Web services folks think it’s OK for end users to use XML Schema if it isn’t good enough for describing WSDL? (Referring to the WSDL WG’s decision to create a new component model for v2.0). Well said!
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from WS-I BP v1.0 to v1.1
Chris Ferris explains the changes from WS-I BP v1.0 to v1.1
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Notes on service-orientation and currest state of WS-* specs, or… I think I am going to join the REST of them
Where is the Web Services world going to? I originally thought (wished) that Web Services technologies would be governed by the principles of service-orientation. I thought we were trying to realise an architecture where the focus was the service and the messages being exchanged, where policies and contracts allowed us to reason about the interactions…
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Downtime warning!
There is going to be a complete power down over the weekend in our machine room to allow for some essential electrical work to take place. Power may be restored as early as Saturday or as late as Monday morning (UK time). As a result, Jim‘s and my blogs/sites and the WS-GAF site will be…
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WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery in W3C
Hmmm… I am starting to suspect that the big companies already have a secret plan. Two submissions to W3C for specifications on how to address Web Services (WS-Addressing and WS-MD)? Surely, the consortium will not allow for two competing groups to be formed (I surely hope not). It seems that they will all get together…
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Versioning in an XML world
I don’t think I’ve ever linked to David Orchard‘s great article on “Versioning XML Vocabularies”. I got reminded of it while reading “Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats” by Dare Obasanjo.
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Jim on WebServices.org
WebServices.org has changed look. It also has a great line up of new contributors; amongst them, my best pal and colleague Jim. His first article is entitled “Web Services: REST in Peace?” which as always is a great read and highly recommended. Please note that the link to this article from Jim‘s most recent post…