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Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies
Michi Henning made some very interesting comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” post. Before going into the specifics of Michi‘s comments, please allow me to emphasize that nothing from what I have been arguing is about CORBA or DCOM or any other distributed objects technology. I am just trying to identify…
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Michi Henning comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” post
Michi Henning had some comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” entry but pblog had trouble accepting them due to an ASP.NET safeguard (not accepting XML elements in a textbox from HTTP POST). I will fix this and will also allow formatting for comments so that long comments like this will not…
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An apology to Greg Goth
I owe an apology to Greg Goth. Greg took offence with my comment that he got it wrong about Jim being a lecturer in this interview (btw… Jim‘s bio). Greg posted a transcript of his chat with Jim and he’s right. Although I am sure that Jim had something else in mind I appreciate that Greg had no…
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Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions
In a meeting yesterday here in Newcastle, few of us (Santosh Shrivastava, Paul Watson, Mark Little, Stuart Wheater, Simon Woodman, and I) got together to discuss/understand the differences (if any) and similarities between service-orientation and object-orientation. You may notice that some of the people involved are the same as the ones behind Arjuna and have a long history in…
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WSDL is a joke?
🙂 Web Services takes the world and “How many jokes have a WSDL as a punchline?” :-)) (via Matt). UPDATE: Here’s another one Seriously now… Your favourite WS advocates (I meant Jim and myself 🙂 are working on something in the WS description area and this time we have collaborators. Watch this space.
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“Critics Say Web Services Need a REST”
Jim, amongst others, was interviewed on the REST vs WS debate (“Critics Say Web Services Need a REST”). Jim pushed the MEST ideas although not by name (btw… thanks for the reference mate 🙂 and I was glad to read Mark Baker’s comments suggesting that there may be something in what we are proposing, as he’s done…
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My first Avalon application
And here’s the reason I wanted to have support for posting pictures on my blog… I wanted to brag about my first Avalon 3D application (completely written in XAML). As I mentioned before, I want to move the 3D visualisation of the White Dwarfs application to Avalon. So, I wanted to find out about how…
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The first few changes to pblog and my blogging tools
Next month it’s going to be one year since I started blogging. All this time, pblog has been servicing my feeds and supporting the weblog version of my blog. I have been using Newsgator to follow other people’s blogs and the plugin that comes with it in order to post to pblog. However, as great…
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Architectural simplicity is our friend when we are aiming for scalability
If the Web has taught us anything is that simplicity in the design is our friend when we want to achieve scalability. That’s the approach we are advocating with MEST and that’s what we have been saying to the Grid community who is introducing things like OGSI and WS-RF into the picture. I remembered the…
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“Searching for White Dwarfs” application
In previous posts I mentioned our “Searching for White Dwarfs” application which was aimed at illustrating how “typical” Grid applications could be easily built using existing Web Services technologies and tools. I have now started putting some more information together on a page (you’ll also find some screenshots). Most of the application is ready but…