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Microsoft’s documents on SOA and the Grid fascination with modelling state
I just found the “Application Conceptual View” collection of documents on the Microsoft site. I think that everyone in the Grid community should read the introduction. Here’s how a service is described: “Software services are discrete units of application logic that expose message-based interfaces suitable for access across a network. Typically, services provide both the…
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On the REST verbs vs “processThis” discussion
Since I returned from my unplanned 5 days of holiday, I am only now catching up with my blog feeds. Jim wrote (“REST Advocates in Hit-and-Run Guerrilla Insurgency” and “Bill de h’ra Upbeat, Mark Baker Upbeat, I’m Upbeat?”) about our idea of treating services as entities that only support one imaginary verb called “processThis”, “processMessage”,…
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“Serializing an Object’s State != Serializing an Object”
This post by Dare Obasanjo makes an interesting read.
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More on “WSDL!=Object IDL” or “roundup revisited”
And the discussion continues. Following from Ted‘s blog entry, Steve Vinoskireplies. Also, following from Sean‘s “In a Swiss army knife, sometimes all you see is the knife” entry, Don Box gives his view in his “WSDL ?= IDL” post. Also, Steve Loughran wonders whether “WSDL+CORBA=WSRF?”. I agree with Steve’s points but I would like to…
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“Why WSDL is not yet another object IDL” roundup
When Jim and I started writing the “Why WSDL is not yet another object IDL” article back in November (submitted for publication in December 2003), we had no idea of the reaction it would cause. People with large history in distributed computing and in-depth knowledge of CORBA have criticized us for not really understanding the…
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pblog database schema changes and trackback support
I spent some time today playing with the pblog SQL Server database schema because I have some new features in mind I want to introduce in the future. One of the things I changed was the use of primary keys in the tables. At first it seemed like a very simple decision. I used an…
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My first spam comment!
It was going to happen sometime! A spam comment on one of my posts and I still haven’t released the trackback enabled version of the pblog engine.
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“Today’s blog hero…”
…Jim 🙂 because he finally got a proper feed.
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Wow! 1090 messages!!!
I decided to take a break away from my computer after a long time. Didn’t touch the thing for 5 days. Went to Paris with my girlfriend and had a brilliant time. Now I am in a hotel in Amsterdam because I managed to mess up with our flights and didn’t notice that there was…
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“IDL is as IDL does”
Totally agree with David Orchard‘s comments in his “IDL is as IDL does” entry, which refers to our “Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL” article. As I said in my reply to Mark Little’s comment, Jim and I are talking about the use of IDL in object-oriented distributed environments.