Patrick Chanezon: Web Services

Link: Commerce One boosts Web services development. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:33:03 GMT

Commerce One boosts Web services development. Open-source kit released [InfoWorld: Top News]

What would Frodo do ?

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:13:18 GMT

What would Frodo do ? Don Box -> Sam Ruby

Ah Ah Ah ! REST in peace, Sauron :-)

Security in Plain English. [::Manageability::]

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:31:22 GMT

Security in Plain English. [::Manageability::]

To get further information expressed in a non technical jargon on the subject I recommend Bruce Schneier's excellent Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World

C# FAQ [bchoi]

Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:24:25 GMT

bchoi: Bookmark to self : C# FAQ

http://www.geocities.com/csharpfaq/index.html

How Google Grows....[Fast Company]

Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:09:51 GMT

How Google Grows.... Fast Company has a wonderfully in-depth article on the the success of Google. Bottom line: <blockquote> Sidebar: How does Google keep innovating? One big factor is the company's willingness to fail. Google engineers are free to experiment with new features and new services and free to do so in public. The company frequently posts early versions of new features on the site and waits for its users to react. </blockquote> These are just the themes we asked Google's Crai... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

An interesting article about google's relentless focus on customer experience, performance and attention to details, and their willingness to experiment early.

Java Too Hard For Java Programmers: Crowbar do not agree with Tim Bray

Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:06:01 GMT

Java Too Hard For Java Programmers. Yep. The news is in. Crowbar developers were a little taken aback by Mr. Bray's assertion that XML was too... [Crowbar Tech]

I don't agree with the Crowebar folks on this one: they take a too elitist view to programming. If we want to truly realize the full potential that computers and software offer us, we need people who are not trained programmers to be able to leverage the software and data infrastructure we offer them.

This will be done in many ways: the rise of scripting languages, easy to use IDEs, easier access to all these XML data, GUI to generate web services orchestration markup, etc...

This is what Microsoft has been very good at doing in the past 10 years. The java camp, BEA being at the forefront of this with Workshop, seems to begin to understand that.

This is not for us java techies, but for our customers.

3 groups of programmers according to Tim Bray

Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:12:32 GMT

XML Is Too Hard For Programmers, says Tim Bray, who uses regexp to get his processing done.

I like his categorization of programmers in 3 groups: The scripting tribe (Perl, Python), the O-O factory (Java and C#) and the close-to-the-metal gang (C, C++).

I consider myself in the OO factory, with a taste for, and an aspiration to scripting. I did some nifty things in Javascript, used to do a bit of Perl, and just started Pyhton last month. I like this categorization because I find myself too often arguing with close-to-the-metal programmers about java performance, or java buffs about javascript's looseness regarding types.

I think each tool have their use in my toolbox, depending on the needs, the specifications of what I need to do and the environment surrounding it. But my gut feeling is that for many of us, most of our work will tend towards scripting.

Regarding the difficulty of using XML in programming languages today, I look forward to the easier ways of getting my work done... without much illusions though: it all depends on what you use XML for.

Sam Ruby's essay Topology: in the beginning was GET !

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:03:41 GMT

Topology.[Sam Ruby]

This essay is a cosmogony of the web according to Sam Ruby.

I need a serious refresher to my knowledge in quantum physics !

Sam's metaphors are enlightning and his style makes it always fun to read. If you haven't read it yet, be sure to also read his Neurotransmitters essay.

Peter Van Dijck: Introduction to XFML

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:57:15 GMT

Peter Van Dijck: Introduction to XFML. [Scripting News]

Good article, and the spec is simple enough to read.

Implementing support for it could be a great addition to our Portal search features: let users of a portal share their facets, and have some standards ones defined at the role level.

SAP NetWeaver supports both .NET and J2EE

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:32:26 GMT

SAP weaves new net. Fresh incarnation of mySAP, NetWeaver to ride both .Net, WebSphere [InfoWorld: Web Services]

A smart choice, but difficult to implement. Let's see how this pans out with the SAP offerings based on this new architecture next year.

The name game. Should the URI namespace be opaque? [InfoWorld: Web Services]

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:48:00 GMT

The name game. Should the URI namespace be opaque? [InfoWorld: Web Services]

About the ISBN in amazon urls that allowed Jon to create his excellent librayLookup service.

Pingback v. Trackback. [Simon Fell]

Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:15:15 GMT

PB and TB. Pingback v. Trackback. [Simon Fell]

With links to pingback, and trackback specs

A Conversation with Adam Bosworth - from [Collaxa's Take]

Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:42:37 GMT

A Conversation with Adam Bosworth. A Conversation with Adam Bosworth - . [Collaxa's Take]

Very interesting conversation. Gets BEA's point of view about java, web services and their integrated stack + development tools approach.

For Adam Bosworth java should get metadata (they created 2 JSRs around that), native XML and messaging.

When IBM bought Rationale I thought BEA Workshop was toast, but I was wrong: they don't target the same users as WSAD. They're competing with Microsoft for business developers.

Clever approach.

A new neighbor through GeoUrls

Thu, 09 Jan 2003 10:48:30 GMT

A new neighbor: Uzopia .

Hi Maik, you seem to be Python/Zope developer.

Liberty Alliance may take off in 2003

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 01:01:50 GMT

Liberty Alliance foreshadows products, services. Web services group identifies 22 new members [InfoWorld: Top News]

Among the differences are Microsoft's central management of user data versus the Liberty Alliance's decentralized approach.

For an infrastructure as critical as identity services, which one do you think is more apt to survival: the centralized or decentralized architecture ?-)

XML Schema Does Not Give Semantics

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:26:24 GMT

XML Schema Does Not Give Semantics [James Duncan Davidson]

IBM upgrades Web Services Toolkit.

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:28:47 GMT

IBM upgrades Web Services Toolkit. Offering includes mechanism for managing Web services [InfoWorld: Web Services]

BEA Workshop is toast

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:41:41 GMT

IBM builds momentum around Eclipse. New members sign on to program, but not Sun or BEA [InfoWorld: Web Services]

There are 3 players left in the java IDE game: Sun, IBM and BEA.

With IBM having bought Rational, I think BEA Workshop is toast. Too bad it looked real nice. How long before they port it to the Eclipse platform :-)

Mono will take longer than Miguel had initially thought

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:34:05 GMT

Mono trudges on with .Net alternative. [InfoWorld: Web Services]

But they will eventually get there: this is one of the advantages of open source; as long as there are some interested developers, a project can reach its milestones, even if it's much later than initially planned.

With Miguel's Ximian, a commercial company, needing Mono to be complete to develop more stuff on it, this makes the milestones issue more important, but not as critical as for a closed source project from a regular commercial company.

Googlefight - yet another toy, this one compares the number of

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:56:09 GMT

Googlefight - yet another toy, this one compares the number of. Googlefight - yet another toy, this one compares the number of results returned from two different queries. [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF]

Frivolous fun service.

Good MSNBC article about Google

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:41:40 GMT

Good MSNBC article about Google.

Quite a good article about Google...

The World According to Google. MSNBC Dec 8 2002 1:47PM ET... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

[Jon Schull's Weblog]

Avaki, Kontiki advance grids

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:39:23 GMT

Avaki, Kontiki advance grids. Avaki ports grid software to Java, Kontiki extends concept to media delivery [InfoWorld: Top News]

Kontiki was created by Netscape Netcenter veterans. Looks like they found a good hot spot in advance. Good luck guys.

Sun allows JBoss to be J2EE 1.4 certified !

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:33:08 GMT

JBoss Soon to be J2EE 1.4 Certified?. According to The Register JBoss has completed J2EE 1.4 support and could become the first appserver to be J2EE 1.4 certified. JBoss will not be a complete implementation of J2EE 1.4, though. The article quotes Marc Fleury saying that APIs for Web services were excluded because of a lack of demand. The APIs will be included should that change, he said.

From The Register's article

JBoss received the green light last week, after Sun told ComputerWire that it would allow all of the APIs contained in J2EE 1.4 to be open sourced. Fleury had expressed concern that certain critical APIs, including Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 2.1, would be not be made available to open source organizations

[TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community]

This is an excellent news !

I'm glad Sun finally opened up the J2EE APIs. JBoss will now receive the recognition it deserves.

Web services business proposition

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:55:38 GMT

Web services business proposition. Web services business proposition -[Collaxa's Take]

.NET CLR Unsuitable for Interpretive Languages?

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:07:13 GMT

.NET CLR Unsuitable for Interpretive Languages?. [::Manageability::]

What, no javascript :-)