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Are resources the new objects? Proposal to rename “Web Services” to “Distributed Objects Revisited”
Yup, yet another spec; this time for managing resources. It’s called WS-Management and I guess it’s in direct competition with the WS-RF-based WS-Distributed Management (WS-DM). Oh well 🙁 It seems that this specification follows the recent trend to reason in terms of resources instead of services. I really enjoyed the following while reading the WS-Management:…
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Sean McGrath and XML Pipelining
This presentation by Sean is very interesting. Recommended read.
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CORBA, Web Services, Indigo, XML, service-orientation, etc.
In case you haven’t been following these interesting discussions, here are some links (in no particular order and with more links in the posts)… Tim Ewald on “State of Web Services” and a follow on, on REST, and then on CORBA and WS and more WS. Ted Neward comments on Don‘s and Steve‘s posts. Don…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jim
It’s already past midnight in Sydney, early in the morning of Sunday, October 3. This means it’s Jim‘s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY mate!
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WS-Transfer and COM IUknown?
I don’t know the details of COM so I wouldn’t recognise the GUID for IUknown. I was suprised to see COM’s IUknown interface makes an appearance in the WS-Transfer specification. If you look at the second example the WS-Addressing MessageID is 00000000-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 the GUID for IUknown. This was from Benjamin Mitchell‘s blog. There is no…
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Utility computing centre closes
TheRegister reports that HP has killed its “utility computing experiment”. Was this doomed to fail or was it ahead of its time? I always believed that “Grid computing” was more about hype, politics, and marketing rather than technology. Here at Newcastle we’d like to think “Grid computing” as an application of the distributed computing ideas…
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Tim Ewald on WS operations
Tim Ewald suggests that Web Services only have 4 simple operations (input, output, input/output, output/input). I think that Tim really gets it but I would have to disagree with this particular comment since I don’t see these as operations; I see them as message exchange patterns. There is only one logical operation supported by every…
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The relationship between SOAs and Web Services (book chapter on the way)
This is a nice post from Mark Nottingham. He talks about the lack of a good understanding of the architectural issues when we talk about Web Services. I think Mark makes a very good point. Jim and I have been thinking about this for the last couple of months and although we haven’t really blogged…
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Sidebar
I always wanted to have a sidebar on my desktop which aggregates information and allows various actions to be just one click away. I know Linux users had sidebars for sometime but I never found one for WindowsXP I was happy with. I even started a VS.NET project to create one on my own but…
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Why I believe REST is not far from “ProcessMessage” or document-centric WS
Mark Baker linked to this post which talks about how to access O’Reilly’s Safari Bookshelf using a REST API and has some example Java code. This post made me think about the relationship between the “ProcessMessage” approach that Jim and I have been advocating and REST. Are we that far apart? Well, I don’t think…