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Eric Newcomer on WS-RF again
Eric identifies the intended use of WS-RF and WS-Context as their main difference (addressing of state vs interaction state management). I agree that WS-Addressing + local-to-the-service information is a way to identify explicitly exposed resources. But then we have to ask… What was wrong with URNs, URLs, OASIS XDI, etc? Why yet another way? Is…
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Related to my last post
After I posted my previous entry, I read Jeff Frey’s response to one of Mark Little’s messages. Jeff’s message confirms my last post’s assertion about the tight-coupling of a resource’s state, its identity, and an interface. According to Jeff, they wanted to provide a network-wide pointer to a resource. How is this different from a…
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A brief thought on WS-RF
My friend Jim from “down under” told me today over messenger that my blog is “more of a social diary than a blog”. So, here’s a thought on WS-RF with which I think he will agree… I think from now on the focus of the discussion is going to be on the conceptual model. WS-RF…
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SFMOMA
In every city I visit, one of the first things I go to see is that city’s modern art museum. Due to other commitments, I only managed to visit San Francisco’s during my last day here. The “San Francisco Museum of Modern Art” is great. Really worth a visit. I really liked a montage by…
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Dinner with Mark Potts
As I mentioned few days ago, I had dinner with Mark Potts from HP last night. It was really nice to see Mark again and find out how well he is doing. He totally deserves it. I was also glad to see that we are on the same page regarding Web Services, SOA, and the…
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Don Box writes on “XSD as a type system”
An interesting read.
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More messages by Eric Newcomer and Mark Little
Eric and Mark have been doing distributed computing for years. It’s great to see their comments (msg1, msg2, msg3) and I am glad that our views are the same as theirs. If people didn’t listen to our views, they may listen to Eric’s and Mark’s. It’s good to sit back for a change and look…
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Discussions on WS-RF have started
I am still trying to assimilate all the information but people have already starting posting questions. It’s going to be fun.
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Comments from Mark Potts on WS-Notification
WS-Notification is part of the WS-ResourceFramework. Mark Potts, distinguished technologist at HP, has made comments about WS-Notification in this article. (Thanks to my boss, Paul Watson, for pointing this out). I know Mark from my HP days. He is a very nice and clever guy. I am meeting him for dinner in few days. I…
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Brief comment by Eric Newcomer on WS-RF
Eric posted to the WS-CAF mailing list a brief comment on WS-RF. His comments are very much inline with what we’ve been saying since August 2003 as part of our WS-GAF proposal. The message was also forwarded in the OGSI-WG mailing list. Cool stuff!