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WinFS to be ported to WinXP?
That’d be cool. The article is questioning whether there would be value in upgrading to Longhorn if all of its pillars are available for Windows XP. I speculate that Microsoft will be first offering consumers an intensive to upgrade by offering a new user experience (Aero, new driver-support, multimedia device integration/support, OS componentisation, etc.). The…
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Technology fanaticism vs enthusiasm
In the past, I too have been responsible for fuelling OS and platform related arguments. However, for quite a few years now I realised that the choice of a tool is a personal matter. In the same way I don’t try to push to people my favourite programming language, IDE, OS, laptop, hardware vendor, bookstore,…
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SSDL in “Architectural Styles for Web Services”
This short article on “Architectural Styles for Web Services” mentions SSDL and MEST. Jim Alateras demonstrates how a simple Web Service could be described using WSDL, implemented using HTTP, and described using SSDL.The problem at hand makes SSDL look remarkably similar to WSDL. Indeed, the equivalent SSDL would be something like this (using the MEP…
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Pat Helland is moving to Amazon
Pat Helland is moving to Amazon. Pat is one of those people that I would really like to work with. I think that the team being created in Amazon to do service-oriented, global-scale computing sounds really exciting. I guess Pat will closely work with that team. Very interesting! 😉
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WSE 2.0 SP3 released
Go get it!
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Clemens spends a weekend with Indigo
Clemens discusses some aspects of Indigo in a three-part post (part 1, part 2, and part 3). It’s very interesting. Part 3 is of particular interest to me. Since I haven’t played with Indigo yet (waiting for Microsoft to release the next CTP, sometime this month) I read with great interest Clemens‘ example on how…
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Great article on C# 2.0 iterators
This article on C# 2.0 iterators deserves a good read, especially by those of you with functional programming languages background/interest. Although I have already made sure that NIP.NET compiles on .NET 2.0, I can’t wait until I have some time to make use of the new .NET 2.0 and C# features for exposing potentially parallel…
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Alpha version of ssdl.exe available
I spent some time today on SSDL.exe so I can make it available through ssdl.org. This is a very alpha version, so please be advised… you’ll probably get exceptions here and there 🙂 Given an SSDL contract document, ssdl.exe will validate it against one of the four protocol framework schemas and then send the validated…
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WSE Policy Advisor
Last week the folks at MSR released a tool, the WSE Policy Advisor, for analysing WS-SecurityPolicy documents. Others have blogged about it but I too wanted to say how cool this tool is. I run it against a very old policy file I had written by hand for the secure version of the WS-GAF Registry service…
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Endpoints in SSDL and SSDL in the news
This post by Jean-Jacques over at ebpml.org suggests that SSDL couples a contract with Web Service endpoints. We’ve thought about this issue and this is the reason we’ve decided to make endpoints optional. A contract is still a contract even if there are no endpoints. The endpoints may be discovered out-of-band. I also think that…