• I absolutely agree…

    … with Steve‘s comments about how the W3C TAG shouldn’t mandate a direct correlation between the wsa:To property and the underlying transport/application protocol-specific address. This would be similar to saying that every time I want to pay with my credit card by giving my credit card number, I have to tell the service provider how…

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  • Problems with pblog

    I would like to apologise to those experiencing problems with <savas:blog/>. It seems that due to the extra load on my small server there are some problems which I am trying to identify. It’s very likely that I will also have to implement some server-side caching. I’ve never thought that the traffic will be high…

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  • Steve on Reference Properties

    Great discussion (“EPR’s, RefP’s, and MSDN2”) from Steve on Reference Properties. I get the feeling that Steve is forgetting the opaqueness of RefProps and RefParams. It’s not the case that one could just safely put any value in the <version> element and create a new EPR that is useable. The consumer of an EPR should…

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  • Excellent intro to Cw

    “An overview of Cw” by Dave Obasanjo is an excellent introduction to those features of Cw that relate to the processing of relational and semi-structured data. Cw‘s concurrency related features are not covered. A great read! I can’t wait for Cw to be made available for .NET 2.0 which is what I use now. I…

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  • Another addition to my WSE 3.0 wish list

    Update: Title corrected. A couple of months ago, I posted an item for the WSE 3.0 wish list. Here’s another one… While working on one of the tools that we are going to present in a week or so, I needed to do the following but unfortunately WSE 2.0 doesn’t support it. In WSE, a…

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  • Help with Sahana

    I’ve been following Sanjiva‘s efforts to help with the Tsunami relief efforts in Sri Lanka. I just realised that I had forgotten to point to his appeal for help with the software development work. So, if you are a Java or a PHP programmer, please consider helping with the Sahana open source project.

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  • “SOAP is really just another RPC protocol” ???

    I just read this opinion article on “Are Web Services the New CORBA?” (Via Mark) “SOAP is really just another RPC protocol”? How can a specification about how to process messages in a particular format without any request-response semantics, without any dispatching semantics, without any notion of a procedure and parameters, be associated with RPC?…

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  • One small step for WS-Addressing, one giant step towards MEST

    (not towards REST Mark 🙂 One down, one to go 🙂 The MEST folks (well, the two of us) can be happier today. The REST camp seems happy too. So, Reference Properties are no more. Hurray!!! Despite what Mark supports, I think that in the future is all going to be about SOAP and not…

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  • The one where I propose that the WS-Addressing TC considers the removal of Reference Props/Params

    It has been suggested in the WS-Addressing WG, as a proposal for the resolution of issue #i001, that the Endpoint Reference (EPR) Reference Properties/Parameters contain the interaction data rather than being part of an identity. I agree about the identity part; EPRs should not be treated as identities. However, I believe that interaction data should…

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  • The roles of services in service-orientated applications

    I am back in Newcastle. The CoreGRID WP3 meeting in Pisa was not what I was expecting but the workshop in Crete turned out relatively ok (for the first in a series that is). There were a couple of interesting talks. There I met Ian Taylor in person (I knew about his work), one of…

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