Once again, I’m co-chairing, with
Jeremy Carroll
the
developer’s track
of the
WWW2006 conference. Well, actually,
if you’ve been paying close attention you’d recognize that last year
(and in previous years) it wasn’t a track, it was instead a separate
day. This year though, it’s a track like any other, with sessions on
each day of the conference.
Believe it or not, there’s a significant enough of a difference
between organizing a track and organizing a day, that we’ve had some
troubles. Thankfully though, we’ve finally made our way past them and
have just posted the
Call for Papers.
Please consider submitting. The deadline is March 19th.
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microformats,
semanticweb,
mobile,
webservices.
“Now, at last, we have tangible evidence of how useful Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and SAP find it [WS-I] as a place to work together”. Ouch! Did I mentioned that WSI is my local waste disposal outfit? 8-)
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“If MoveOn and other organizations want more assuredness of delivery of their message, they should be sending their message in channels that don’t have spam.” +1
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“Especially appreciated are use cases and specific scenarios where a different approach or protocol [other than HTTP/URIs] would have worked better.” Somebody’s got their priorities straight. Kudos.
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James quotes Dave Winer: “She told me that RSS 2.0 has become the framework for all their work now, completely replacing J2EE.”. I expect she means “RSS 2.0 and HTTP”. HTTP is assumed. Ubiquitous. Sweet!
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“You know its bad when I feel like I’m channeling Mark Baker!” 8-)
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Yup! “I predict (and I certainly hope) that many implementations will incorporate support for RESTful applications using SOAP messages. As even Mark Baker would agree, there’s nothing inherently wrong with SOAP itself and there is no reason it can’t be a
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“APP, OpenSearch and Microformats. Get used to seeing them; those small pieces loosely joined are the future of web services.” Amen to that!
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In the comments on an inquisitive
blog post by David Megginson,
Mike Champion
asks;
Show us the WS-* success stories, show us the secure, reliable and truly RESTifarian success stories, and let the world judge from the evidence.
to which I responded;
Mike – empirical evidence is wonderful to have of course, but it’s also extraordinarily costly to come by. It’s also unnecessary, since we’ve had at our disposal for years (since Perry & Wolf’s “Foundations” paper in the early 90s) a method of evaluating software architectural styles for their suitability for any particular task in any particular environment. Applying that method to SOA/WS tells us a number things, most importantly that it doesn’t scale across trust boundaries (which I’ve been saying for many years, and folks now seem to be acknowledging viz a viz WS use behind the firewall). That same method also tells us which other styles do (ones that adopt interface constraints, of which REST is just one example). This whole debate is not much more complicated than that.
I just thought that worth replicating here. Of course, that extraordinary
cost I referred to has already been born out over the past few years by
Web services ISVs, their customers, and others, so there should be an
abundance of evidence for Mike.
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soa,
rest,
softwarearchitecture,
webservices.