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Pat Helland and the Metropolis
Wow!!! How I wish I could be at TechEd 2004 in Amsterdam. Pat Helland has a series of talks lined up that seem extremely interesting. This is the abstract of his ARC402 talk: Services provide a formal boundary of computing. Inside a service we typically find data that is needed for the operation of the…
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Objects, Web Services, CORBA, Service-orientation… will it never stop?
Catching up with the blogs I read (yes… I know, I should be paying attention at the talks here at the Sun HPC Consortium’s GRID-SIG but I can’t concentrate today). The discussion on Web Services, CORBA, Objects, still goes on… Don Box on “Object as Web Services Again and Again and Again” Steve Vinoski on…
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Care about messages?
I just saw that Christian Weyer and co are going to be at TechEd (Christian, the link in your post does not point to a public page) and they have some interesting talks lined up. Make sure you check it out. I wish I could be there. As Christian says, “we care about messages…”!!! Indeed,it’s…
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Plumbwork orange
After my previous post about WS-Eventing I was contacted by John Bristowe (subscribed) who told me about his Gotdotnet project, called “Plumbwork Orange”, “…a workspace dedicated to bringing some WS-* implementations into the WSE fold.” as John explains in this post. I have joined the project and hope to dedicate some time to helping with…
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Just as I started recovering from my jetlag…
… I am off travelling again so posts may be infrequent for the next 10 days. Tomorrow I am off to Heidelberg, Germany, for Sun’s HPC Consortium meeting where I am giving an invited talk. I’ve been to Heidelberg twice before; a fantastic city. After Germany I am off to Sardegna, Italy, for just one…
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Geek jokes
Computer jokes thread (link from this post from Chris Sell’s blog). And there are some more here. Like Chris, I particularly liked this one. Two strings walk into a bar. The first one says, “Bartender! Bartender! I want a drink!” The second one says, “Bartender! Bartender! I want a drink too! blaaaaaaaaah Eeeeeeeek yaaaaaaak oooooooh.”…
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Having fun with WS-Eventing
Jim and I are working on a new application that will combine Web Services and RFID technologies. One of the things that we need is events, so we decided to have a look at WS-Eventing. While on the plane back from Hawaii, I decided to have a go at implementing it using WSE 2.0. It…
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Back from Hawaii
Back from Hawaii and seriously jetlagged. Jim has a nice wrap-up of what happened during GGF11. I think that this GGF meeting was the “quietest” I’ve been. People seem willing to move on beyond the “infrastructure arguments”, adopt WS-RF as a done deal, and concentrate on the high-level services. The OGSA working group has a…
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Jim talking in Hawaii
I am going to blog about what’s going on here in Hawaii later but for now I just wanted to post this photo of Jim presenting at the “Building Service Based Grids” workshop, the one that I mentioned in a previous post. As you can see from the picture, it’s not only work here in…
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Ad-hoc BOF on Web Services-based Grids @ GGF11
We are thinking of running an ad-hoc BOF at GGF-11 on Web Services-based Grids. The BOF will be an informal gathering of people who are interested in building Grid applications using existing Web Services specifications. Some suggestions for discussion: Have we reached the limit of what we can do with existing Web Services specifications when…