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Moving behaviour from the endpoint to protocols
In case you do not follow the comments on my blog posts, here’s another great one about moving the behaviour from the endpoint by Michi and my response (almost agreeing! 🙂 Of course I am not suggesting that we completely move to a world where all applications are built using the principles of service-orientation; only…
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Avalon and a 3D Star Browser
As I previously mentioned, I’ve been experimenting with Avalon. As a toy application, I am developing a 3D star browser for our galaxy. The idea is to get the information for the stars from one of the scientific archives (SDSS or SSA) and display it in 3D. Last summer my student Rumesh Machap (the best…
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More on service-orientation
Just pointing to a couple of great posts, compatible with and adding lots more to the views I expressed in the “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” and “Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies” posts: – Benjamin Mitchell‘s summary of a presentation he gave. – Steve Maine‘s “SOA…
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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…