• 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.…

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  • Challenge accepted 🙂

    Mark Baker challenges those of us who believe that a sensible architecture can be designed without depending on a particular (transport/transfer/network) protocol. In fact, Jim and I are doing exactly that in our next paper which is going to have the more thorough description of MEST. More soon!

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  • The MEST architectural style

    MEST is for service-orientation and Web Services what REST is for resource-orientation and the Web. The above quote is taken from the paper that Jim and I have just completed. We decided to finally write down our ideas on ProcessMessage, service-orientation, and Web Services. The paper was submitted to a conference so we won’t know…

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  • MS and HPC

    I hadn’t noticed that the Microsoft HPC site went live. Cool stuff for doing distributed, high-performance computing on the Microsoft platform. Very cool. I actually submitted my CV for one of the HPC posts when the team was forming few months ago but never heard from Microsoft 🙁

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  • The WSEFAQ wiki

    John did it again. Have fun with the wiki.wsefaq.com.

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