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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…
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W3C WSDL 2.0 last call for comments
Back from holidays, back to base! Backlog of messages cleared, still going through backlog of blog entries. The W3CWSDL working group has published the working drafts for WSDL 2.0 part 1, part 2, and part 3. We have till 4 October 2004 to submit comments. Good reading everyone!
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Time for a break
Hey everyone… It’s time for a break. I am going to switch off completely for 7 days, so no blogging. Santorini is our destination. I’ve already been there twice but that was 13 and 12 years ago 🙂 It’s such a great place! See you in a week!
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A very good, high-level overview of service-orientation
This article on “Service Orientation and Its Role in Your Connected Systems Strategy” by Microsoft‘s Mike Burner is an excellent overview of service-orientation. I fully subscribe to these views. In the middle of the article there is a discussion of Microsoft‘s related technologies which you can skip if you are not interested. Highly recommended read.
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The boys are fighting again…
– “No, mine is better” – “But you didn’t measure yours fairly” 🙂 Sun published a paper on the performance of J2EE vs .Net for SOAP processing and Microsoftresponded by replicating the same tests.
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Please everyone, repeat after me… there are NO OBJECTS in service-orientation
At least there are no objects that we can see. Objects may be used in an implementation of a service but there are no objects in the architecture (either remote or local). In a post that seems to miss this point, Sean Landis talks about “SOAs – Separating Hype from Reality”. Here’s a quote from…
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Services… are they the evolution of components? And… “stateless” vs “stateful” again.
In a previous post I mentioned Jim‘s thoughts on the transition from objects, to components, and now services. His post generated some interesting comments and an entry in Stefan‘s blog. Stefan wrote that …a component has a contract not only with the outside world, but also with the component platform into which it is deployed……
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Comega
Jim blogged about Xen and recommended the “Programming with Rectangles, Triangles, and Circles” paper, which is really interesting. I have been following the development of “Xen”, then “X#”, and now “Comega” for some time. Few months ago I attended the “Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#” presentation, a description of the polyphonic C# features, at NeSC.…
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Werner Vogels on asynchronicity
This is an interesting read on why “the world is asynchronous” by Werner Vogels.