• SSDL Computing Science Technical Reports

    The following SSDL-related documents are now available in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Computing Science Technical Reports series: CS-TR-898: An Introduction to the SOAP Service Description Language (PDF) CS-TR-899: The SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL) (PDF) CS-TR-900: MEP SSDL Protocol Framework (PDF) CS-TR-901: CSP SSDL Protocol Framework (PDF) CS-TR-902: Rules-based SSDL Protocol Framework (PDF) CS-TR-903: Sequencing…

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  • Remotely logging Indigo messages using Indigo

    I had a couple of hours available while travelling by train to London the other day, so I decided to play with Indigo‘s message logging facility. Indigo does a great job of logging in/out SOAP messages to/from services. Check the TracingAndLogging sample that comes with the WinFX SDK March CTP on how to enable message…

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  • A generic class for implementing protocol handlers in Indigo

    In my “Indigo adventures” post I showed how one could write a new channel which can be used to implement a WS-* protocol. After watching the Indigo SDR content, I still think this to be the recommended way of implementing an infrastructure protocol (even though I am still not absolutely certain… Indigo folks may correct…

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  • Indigo SDR content

    All the content from the last Indigo Software Design Review (SDR) is now available online. I wish I knew about this before getting inside Indigo on my own. But then again, I wouldn’t have had the fun of finding problems that needed solving 🙂 I am starting to go through these presentations now so if…

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  • Indigo adventures

    Those interested in Indigo would have probably seen by now the many introductory posts on how to write services, use bindings, use output/input channels, service/message/data contracts, etc. The Indigo community is doing a fantastic job to provide examples of how to use Microsoft‘s new technology for distributed computing. As everyone else, as soon as I…

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  • Glastonbury 2005

    Hurray! Managed to get tickets for this year’s Glastonbury. I am sooo looking forward to it.

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  • REST vs SOAP – “Apple and Oranges”

    I guess I may have to take back my comment that comparing REST and SOAP is like comparing apple and oranges 🙂 (via Paul Thurrott)

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  • “Architecting and Developing Message-Oriented Web Services” WWW2005 Tutorial

    May is fast approaching and Jim and I have been starting thinking about the details of our WWW2005 tutorial on architecting and developing message-oriented Web Services. In the original proposal we had suggested that we were going to use WSE 2.0 for the discussion but now that the Avalon/Indigo March CTP is available to everyone,…

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  • Vodafone’s vision

    I thought that some of the proposed directions were obvious but the delivery is great. (via Radovan)

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  • WSDM as a standard – the other side

    The commentary from Tim Bray (“Stop WSDM”), Grek Pavlik (“WSDM Standardization: Just Say No (For Now)”), Mark Little (“Why WSDM isn’t ready for primetime (yet)”), me, and I guess others made Mark Potts reply (“Response to Stop WSDM”). First, my apologies to Mark for the lack of support for formatted comments on my blog. He…

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