Monthly Archives: June 2004

the weblog of Lucas Gonze; More for the encyclopedia of wrong mime types

If only media types were http URIs, then you could dereference them to learn whether or not they’re what you’re looking for. This is why URNs suck. (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]

Manageability – The Imminent Rise of REST and Fall of SOAP

Sweet! But is it a tree in the forest, or the first domino? (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]

HardwareGeeks.com – Mozilla and Nokia join forces

In a previous incarnation of this project, I was asked to move to Mountainview in late 1999 (IIRC) to work with Asko Komsi of Nokia on a micro version of Gecko/Mozilla. We were to work out of Netscape/AOL’s offices there. Politics killed it, but I heard (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]

Triple-based Computing

(Via Jacek) Digs deep into HTTP/RDF as a tuple/triple-space architecture, and concludes that this is the future of Semantic Web services. I couldn’t agree more! (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]

ITworld.com – Oracle buying BPM vendor Collaxa, sources say

Congrats to Edwin and Doron! (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]

Vint Cerf and the Matrix’s Architect

Separated at birth? (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]

Nokia WS/SOA paper

Tim Bray writes about an informative Nokia paper on WS/SOA. Check out Nokia Web Services Framework for Devices – a Service-oriented Architecture. It’s a practical intro to how SOA might play in the mobile space, with some eminently sensible background work; there’s a section entitled What is a service-oriented architecture, and why is it good?… Read More »

REST Workflow paper

Stefan found a paper with a very interesting title, that I hadn’t heard anything about; Developing Web Services Choreography Standards – The Case of REST vs. SOAP. I’d heard Keith Swenson’s name a few days earlier in the context of ASAP and some of the recent buzz surrounding it, but I’ve known about his work… Read More »

Mario Jeckle (Stefan Tilkov’s Random Stuff)

Mario Jeckle, dead at 30. Peace, Mario. (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]

Don Park’s Daily Habit – OSGi

Geez, I didn’t realize it was still going. I remember attending a meeting in 1998 when it was called the “Connected Alliance”. Neat stuff, based primarily on Anselm Baird Smith’s Java Embedded Server (JES) (link) [Mark Baker’s Bookmarks]