• “The Future of Grid and Web Services” and a chat with Steve Tuecke

    Just returned from a UK e-Science event on the “The Future of Grid and Web Services” that Malcolm Atkinson organised. It was very interesting. Some 90 people where there. Steve Tuecke presented WS-RF and their motivation. Afterwards, I was invited…

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  • Don Box on Object-Orientation

    Few comments by Don Box but not great deal of detail.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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