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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”.
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Jim Webber on webservices.org
Jim has been interviewed by Joe McKendrick as part of an article entitled “Analysis: Can You Spare a Cycle or Two? Grid Computing Moves Closer to Web Services” which appears on WebServices.org. Here’s Jim‘s blog post.
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A nice post in the OGSI::Lite mailing list about WS-GAF and our work
This post is a month old but I didn’t know about it until Mark McKeown mentioned it yesterday during dinner (yes, we are still in Berlin). Mark announced a new release of OGSI::Lite that implements part of the WSRF suite of specifications. OGSI::Lite is a toolkit for building Grid applications written in Perl. You should…
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Nice article about Mono
Here is a nice article about Mono. I’ve been using Mono for some time and I am very pleased with it. I am using it to run nip.net on Linux and I am hoping to have some performance results soon. Thanks to Paul Watson for the link.