• The 3D star browser in our VR facility

    Old readers of my blog will know that I have been experimenting with Avalon by building a 3D star browser using the Sload Digitial Sky Survey data. I have ported the previous version of the StarBrowser to the Avalon March 2005 CTP but my laptop’s hardware cannot really cope so I have put the experiment on…

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  • MEST music

    This may be an album I may buy. I just happen to like the name of the group 🙂

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  • Steve, Mark, and Stefan on REST/WS

    The discussion on REST/WS is still very much alive. There is an interesting thread of comments in Steve Vinoski‘s “WS references” post. Note the references to “ProcessThis”. I wouldn’t have made the link between “ProcessMessage/This” with protocol handlers or interceptors in the same way that REST doesn’t link the transfer of state representation with HTTP…

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  • MEST, an operation, and the role of contracts

    The discussion on MEST started again thanks to a recent entry by Jim. Mark makes some valid observations in his comment to Jim’s entry. I would like to clarify a couple of things: MEST is an architectural style and as such it is not tightly associated to SOAP. The relationship between MEST and SOAP is…

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  • 2005 Middleware for Web Services Workshop CFP

    This seems like it’s going to be a very interesting workshop taking place in conjunction with the 9th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference. Put those fingers on the keyboard and start typing 🙂 The call for papers.

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  • The “Architecting and Developing Message-Oriented Web Services” WWW2005 Tutorial is not happening 🙁

    Thanks to those of you who registered for our WWW2005 tutorial. Unfortunately the attendance numbers for the conference seem to be quite low and, as a result, many tutorials (ours included) have been cancelled 🙁 Sorry guys. I was looking forward to this event. Mark, I guess we’ll have to wait for another event to…

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  • 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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