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I am not alone after all
Here’s a post by Clemens Vasters saying what I’ve been saying for some time about the use of WS-Addressing as an object pointer 🙂
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Deadline for the special edition is coming
The deadline for the special edition on Web Services Architecture of the Journal of Web Services Research is very close now. If you are thinking of submitting a paper but would like some more time, please drop me or Jim a line.
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Protocol independence comments by Steve Maine
There is a very good discussion taking place between Steve (post 1, post 2) and Mark (post 1, post 2). I agree with Steve on most points, except the need for an action header 🙂
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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”.