• 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!

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  • I was reassured that our WS-GAF ideas are correct

    I just got out of a loooong session with the authors of the WS-Resource Framework specs. From what I’ve heard, I am now reassured that our WS-GAF ideas were all spot on. In fact, many of the things we have been talking about are part of the current thinking of the authors. I still have…

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  • Mark Baker agrees

    I should have added to my previous post that Mark agrees with the approach of building distributed applications around the concept of resources (identity+interface+state)… but that’s to be expected given Mark’s view on REST.

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  • Mark Baker on the WS-Resource spec

    Although Marksees it from a REST point of view, I agree with him about the coupling of identity plus interface plus state. They are re-inventing distributed objects.

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  • WS-Resource Framework released

    Half of the WS-Resource Framework suite of specifications was made available from Globus and IBM today. Steps towards to the right direction were made (factorisation, lack of overloading of the term “service”, removal of Grid Service Handle/References, removal of Service Instance Factories). However, from an initial first look, it seems that the conceptual model remains…

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  • Mars-related photos…

    Another one 🙂

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  • Starbuck’s on Mars!

    I saw this “Mars-Seattle humour picture” on Robert Scole’s blog.

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  • Going to San Francisco tomorrow

    I am travelling to San Francisco tomorrow. It’s going to be a long long journey. Time to catch with some work then… I bought “Astronomy: The Evolving Universe” for this journey, which I hope to read on the plane. I need an introduction to astronomy and astrophysics for the application we are going to build.…

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