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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…
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Doh doh doh!
I am sorry but due to stupidity I managed to loose all my posts and your comments since March 18. A combination of mistakes during my efforts to update my pblog engine (after Jim‘s request to have a “from location” field), I managed to drop my SQL Server database and loose all my entries since…
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Sean McGrath on the “fallacy of business objects”
This is an interesting read (by Sean McGrath). I also enjoyed reading one of the references in his article on “Object have failed” by (Richard P. Gabriel).
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Is it a Web Service or not? (cont’d)
Mark follows on from my previous post. He suggests that clients should determine what they want to do with the returned document “based on the type of the document”. Mark gives this as a reason for not having to define, as part of the contract, the information that is going to be returned. However, doesn’t…