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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.
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A WSDL document does not define operation semantics
I had to read this post a number of times to make sure that there wasn’t something I missed since I find myself agreeing with Mark 🙂 (just joking Mark… we’ve agreed before, I think :-). A WSDL document will not tell you anything about the semantics of an “operation”. WSDL is a contract for…
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Discussion on OGSA adopting WSRF as its infrastructure and the “Search for White Dwarfs”
A discussion has taken place in the OGSA WG mailing list on whether the OGSA platform should be based on WS-RF. We contributed our views supporting the adoption of only stable specifications but the group decided in favour of WS-RF. As Jim said in a post to the WS-GAF mailing list, it’s time to compare…
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“The Secret Source of Google’s Power”
An interesting read. Thanks to Brian Randell for the link.
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“Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL”
Jim and I wrote an article few months ago that was just published in the Web Services Journal called “Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL“. We even had some feedback… “very poor” by James Greeve. However, he didn’t say why he thought the article was bad so we could get it right next…