• 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…

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  • Off to Hawaii for HPDC and GGF11

    I am off to Hawaii tomorrow for HPDC-13 and GGF11 (yes, I know… my job sucks but somebody has to do it :-). I am one of the co-organisers of the “Building Service Based Grids” workshop which is taking place on the 6th (provisional program). Do come along if you are around. The papers presented…

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  • Michael Platt on the “Grid”

    Worth spending a minute to read this. It’s not just us thinking that the Grid community shouldn’t be concentrating its efforts on the infrastructure; that’s Web Services.

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  • Mapping DAIS concepts on WS-I, WS-Context, WS-RF

    Few months ago Simon Laws (IBM UK), Sastry Malladi (Oracle), and I started an effort to write a GGF informational document about how several of the concepts defined by GGF‘s Data Access and Integration (DAIS) working group could be mapped to different Web Services technologies. The approaches considered were the use of WS-I only specifications,…

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  • Does doc/literal guarantee loose coupling?

    Eric Newcomer writes about the use of doc/literal when building WS applications. He supports the idea of document exchange to achieve platform integration. Of course, I agree with Eric since this is exactly what Jim and I have been advocating for some time. I would like to comment on this particular comment by Eric… The…

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  • Proposal to remove WS-RF dependency from WS-Notification

    Since the WS-RF and WS-Notification OASIS TCs were formed, I’ve been reading negative comments by other people about WS-RF’s conceptual model. At last I feel that Jim and I are not lone voices. This is a post by David Hull of Tibco that is worth reading. Thanks to Mark Little for bringing this to my…

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  • WS-Security Profile by WS-I

    WS-I made available a draft of the WS-I Basic Security Profile Version 1.0. A very good development indeed.

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  • One of those Internet moments

    There are those moments on the Internet that capture everyone’s attention. This scam on a scammer seems to be one of those. You need to download the PDF. It’s a real funny account of the events that took place. Here’s the original thread but it has now grown to thousands of posts.

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  • Discussion on WS-Addressing vs WS-MD

    There is an interesting exchange of comments over on Jim‘s blog under his “If there’s one thing better than an addressing spec…” post. Looking for comments on Jim’s blog reminded me that I really need to implement RSS feeds for comments for pblog.

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