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Spot the difference
I just spotted the “spot the difference challenge” (sorry Mark)… I’ll bite. What’s the difference? I don’t personally see one. The ProcessMessage “operation” is all about processing of messages. It’s all about an agent sending a message to another agent for processing. The introduction of this logical operation into the architecture was done to make…
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Building blocks of architectural paradigms
Since the publication of WS-Transfer, the discussion on REST vs WS has been intensified. Just google the terms and you’ll find lots of commentary. I would like to start this entry by just saying that comparing REST and Web Services technologies is like comparing apples and oranges. One is an architectural style, a set of…
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What makes a SOAP document a message
Mark Baker comments on Steve Maine‘s “Web Services Kernel” post and says: “A SOAP envelope is not a SOAP message, and pretending otherwise turns a perfectly good document wrapper into a perfectly crappy application protocol.” Hmmm… I think Mark makes a good point but I also believe that it is all relative. You see, in…
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Jim’s article on “Why WSDL works”
I haven’t been bloging lately. I’ve been coding like crazy my WhiteDwarfs application. I’ll try to release something within the week. I’ve also been collecting some thoughts on resources vs services vs objects that I am going to blog about soon. In the meantime here’s a reference to Jim‘s recent article on “Why WSDL Works”…
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Back home from a knee operation
Yesterday I had an operation on my knee. Everything went fine. Just got back home. Now some serious physiotherapy for few months. Hopefully, I will be able to ski again next year 🙂
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EPL
The EPL language for implementing event-based solutions using a declarative language. Interesting.
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An interesting exchange of comments…
… over at Mark Nottingham‘s recent blog entry on “Why POST is Special”.
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Reminder: Special issue on Web Services Architecture
The deadline for submissions is approaching.
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Three method calls that make all the difference
I’ve been coding like crazy the last few days 🙂 on an astronomy-related application. I had to remember lots of trigonometry from 15 years ago 🙁 The application is supposed to be a tool for discovering white dwarfs in our galaxy utilising information from astronomical archives (e.g. SDSS, SuperCOSMOS) through the use of Web Services.…
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W3C WS-Addressing WG
It was about time! The W3CWS-Addressing WG has been formed. Good luck to Mark who’s chairing it! This spec and SOAP are, to my mind, the most important in the WS world. Remember… It’s all about the message.