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Is it a Web Service or not?
🙂 Mark Baker blogs about “the iTunes music store and the non-browser Web”. He writes: So let me understand… ITMS is presenting an HTTP/URI based interface intended for use by automata, and not human-controlled browsers? How is such a thing possible?! THE WEB IS FOR HUMANS (isn’t it?)! Head .. about to … explode. 😎…
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ObjectSpaces in .NET
Some time ago I blogged about ObjectSpaces. Here’s some more information about it from Ryan Dawson blog.
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Eric Newcomer on UML and MDA
Eric posted some comments on the use of UML and MDA. This is the last paragraph of his post… (And no, I don’t think either UML or MDA is very well suited to using for Web services, either. Class diagrams are just not the right metaphor, since Web services are not object-oriented, and the interaction…
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The “Service Network”
I personally see both the “message” and the “protocol” as part of Service-Oriented Architectures but Jeff Schneider sees a difference. Hmmm… Can’t make up my mind now but this post is worth a read. Also, if you haven’t seen it, here’s Jeff’s paper on the “World Wide Grid”. Jeff’s use of the term “Grid” is…
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Caution: roadworks ahead!
As you may have noticed, I have changed the design of my webblog and the title of my blog in the feeds. I would like to apologise to those of you who are following my blog through an RSS or Atom reader in case this change has caused any problems. Please let me know if…
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Post on “SOA is like the Night Sky”
This post is by Microsoft‘s Pat Helland. Highly recommended.
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Mark Baker on Jim’s post
Mark Baker comments on Jim’s recent post about “Service-orientation vs Resource-orientation” which included a diagram I created for our presentations. Mark seems to think that WS-RF‘s notion of a resource is the same as the one the web is using. Although this may be true, I personally see a difference. The web doesn’t use “types”…
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Interesting read
If you are into CLR performance measurements, Rico Mariani‘s post comparing the performance of three ways of printing to a console is an interesting read. From Eric Gunnerson‘s blog.
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Template metaprogramming
Here is a good explanation of what template metaprogramming is all about. This article reminded of Francisco Pereira because I remember discussing template metaprogramming with him years ago, when he was here in Newcastle. It was the feature that persuaded him about the benefits of C++ templates. Francisco is still in CS @ CMU. I…
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Interesting comments in a recent post
There is an interesting exchange of comments to one of my recent blog entries on “Putting the operation name in body of a SOAP message”.