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pblog update
I’ve started HTML-encoding the blog’s title in the RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds that pblog generates. I did this because RSS Bandit had a problem with the title of my blog (“<savas:blog />”). Please let me know if your aggregator has problems with this (i.e. if the title appears as “<savas:blog />”). Thanks! I…
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Dragon Boat race @ Newcastle
There was a Dragon Boat race yesterday on the Tyne (the river that goes through Newcastle… hence, “Newcastle upon Tyne” 🙂 Some 21 people, mostly from Computing Science, formed the University of Newcastle “Dragon & Drop” team 🙂 None of us were rowers. We did it just for the fun of it. There were around…
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Jim on MEST/SSDL
I just noticed that Jim is going to be talking about MEST and SSDL. If you happen to be around Sydney on September 7, don’t miss this. Jim is an excellent speaker. BTW, it’s time for the long-promised MEST paper. Jim and I decided to start the work on it this week. We’ll keep you posted.
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Concurrency and distributed systems
(Back from an unplanned week of ‘working-holidays’ in Greece… had an excellent time) It’s not news to Computing Science folks that in many cases concurrency and distributed computing face the same problems. Theoreticians may even say that the two domains do not differ from a modelling point of view and for most problems they would be…
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REST in Axis 2.0???
About Axis 2.0 again (via Mark Baker’s blog). This page describes how “RESTful Web Services” are supported by Axis 2.0. “REST is providing access to the resources through the two methods GET and POST. The REST Web services are reduced subset of the usual Web Service stack, and the Axis2 REST implementation assumes following properties.” I…
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WSO2 – Sanjiva’s new company
Sanjiva has a new company: WSO2. From the company’s frontpage: “We are creating an uncompromising middleware platform for Web services which treats Web services as first class components instead of as a facade to some existing platform like J2EE. Apache Axis2 is the first SOAP stack which espouses this design in its guts: we focus…
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Message-orientation in Axis 2.0
The “Web Services Messaging with Apache Axis2: Concepts and Techniques” article is a good introductory read for those who are still trying to understand the difference between explicit (SOAP-based) messaging and Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)! I don’t think I need to write anything more in relation to the discussion on whether SOAP and Web Services…
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Dynasoar and Virtual Machines (part 1 – The concept and the architecture)
Here’s something fun I’ve been working on lately (relates to something I blogged about back in November 2004). Motivation Dynasoar is a research effort within NEReSC to define a service-oriented architecture for the dynamic deployment and hosting of services on the Internet (or Grid for those of you who prefer “in” buzzwords 🙂 It clearly…
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Nerding out in the open
Sam Aaron (one of our PhD students here in Newcastle) is having some fun with the photos from my web site and his new toy application. Very cool 🙂
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Microsoft Architecture Journal: “Service-oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing”
Back from holidays today (the reason I haven’t been bloging) and started the task of cleaning up my mailbox. As I was going through my messages I saw that issue 5 of the Microsoft Architecture Journal has been published. This issue includes an article that Jim and I wrote months ago about “Service-oriented, Distributed, High-Performance…