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Explaining MEST
Steve in his “Gudge, Mark, app protocols, and transport independence” post continues the very interesting discussion with Mark and Gudge. Mark mentioned MEST in his “Gudge responds to the wsa:To issue” post and so Steve asks for clarification on what MEST is all about. So, here it goes… I have to start by saying that…
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MEST paper rejected 🙁
Our first attempt for a MEST paper was rejected. This is not very bad since we got some useful feedback and really encouraging comments from the two out of three referees, who also suggested that the paper be accepted. The third reviewer not only rejected the paper but did not even give us any useful…
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MTOM, XOP, RRSHB
There are many reports about the blogosphere about the move to W3C recommendation status of the MTOM, XOP, and RRSHB specs. Well done to all those involved.
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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?…