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Adding to Aaron’s WSE wish list
Aaron Skonnard posted his WSE 3.0 wish list. I meant to add to his list more than a week ago but didn’t get the chance. I will agree with Aaron’s and other people’s requests and I would like to add one of my own… Currently, if you change the addressing information of a SoapEnvelope while…
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Avalon/WinFX for WinXP Pro
Yupeeeeee!!! Last week I installed the WinHEC 2004 build of Longhorn (Client Preview 2) on a Virtual PC because I wanted to start playing with Avalon and Indigo again. The 1GB of memory on my laptop and the number of applications I usually run make life difficult performance-wise but today Microsoft had a surprise for…
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Interesting readings today
I had a fun morning reading some of the stuff around the web and close to home (Newcastle) but only now I got the chance to blog about them. By far the most important message to report was Jim Gray‘s views at the WS-GAF mailing list which confirmed our suggestions on how large-scale, scalable architectures…
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Microsoft Academic Days in Prague #2
Unfortunately Arvindra Sehmi couldn’t make it to the meeting. I was looking forward to meeting him and talking about FABRIQ. This also means that we are minus one talk for today so I have been asked to talk for more. They have a “speakers’ quite room” here :-). So I am here editing my slides…
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Mark Little is blogging
It was about time. Mark Little is blogging (subscribed). Expect great stuff here. Mark is Mr. Transactions guy and only few others around the world have his knowledge on CORBA. He was my manager during my HP Arjuna Labs days when we developed the first transactions system for Web Services. Jim continued to work with…
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Microsoft Academic Days in Prague
I arrived today in Prague. Really beautiful city. I am here for the Microsoft Academic Days 2004 for Central and Eastern Europe. I was invited my Microsoft to talk about our work in Newcastle on Internet-scale computing (a.k.a. Grid). There are about 250 delegates here. I noticed today that the speakers wear on of those…
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Microsoft Research Fellowship @ Cambridge
Microsoft Research is funding a fellowship at the University of Cambridge in the area of e-Science. Here’s the official announcement. I think this is a great opportunity for a young researcher to pursue her/his interests in the area. Few years ago I would have applied for this without thinking twice (whether I would have been…
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Grek Pavlik is blogging
Just saw this over at Jim‘s. Grek Pavlik is blogging (subscribed).
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JWSDP 1.5
I read this over at Ted Neward‘s blog. JWSDP 1.5 is available. I read a couple of articles on this and I was happy to see that Sun’s framework allows message-oriented implementations of Web Services. It also supports WS-Security which is interoperable with WSE. Cool.
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Tim Ewald on Web Services as Objects
Yup… The same old story. Are Web Services technologies going to help us build distributed, object-oriented applications or are we going to use them to build service-oriented systems? My preference for the latter is well known. Tim makes some interesting comments on this topic. Amongst others, he mentions the lack of lifecycle management for WS.…