Hi Ranjeet, Perhaps we shouldn't have used the word "registry" as that word seems to have some baggage associated with it, and is automatically leading people...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 19, 2002 1:35 pm
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Maybe I missed this, but how does the client find the service description URL in the first place? ... Seairth Jacobs seairth@... ... From: "Roger L....
Since a browser accessing the URL should return an HTML document describing the service, we are relying on Google like services to fill this need. David ... ...
Hi Seairth, ... This is the so-called "matchmaking" problem, i.e., matching a client to a service. We deliberately kept the matchmaking problem separate from ...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 19, 2002 8:37 pm
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Seairth, Here's some more info on your question. /Roger ... Our thinking is that web services should be an integral part of the web. This means that if...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 19, 2002 9:00 pm
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Roger and/or Dave: Can you concicely state what the purpose of this list is? From the posts here and on xml-dev, I am beginning to get a totally different...
Roger, The matchmaking problem is really the starting point. It is the first step of discovery. It needs to be standardized. Since we already have a...
Hi Seairth, Thanks for your questions! Okay, let me see if I can concisely state the purpose of this list. First, let me state what we do NOT address: a. We...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 20, 2002 1:55 pm
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... This is still pretty heavyweight. It requires setting up a registry server or being given access to someone else's registry server. And it still does not...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 20, 2002 1:58 pm
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There is a lot of debate in the community about what's the best way to **implement** Web services: - The REST community argues that Web services should be...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 20, 2002 2:17 pm
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Roger, In light of the recent release of the final spec for JSR 109, I'm afraid this horse has left the barn. ...
Hi Frank, Thanks for the pointer to IBM's specification, and the kind words on my papers on REST. Some thoughts: - I am not ready to declare any technology as...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 20, 2002 3:16 pm
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I came to the conclusion a long time ago that something isn't "real" until you give it a name. We need a name for this Distributed Registry architecture. Here...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 20, 2002 5:25 pm
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Distributed Registry Architecture for the Web (DRAW)? ... Seairth Jacobs seairth@... ... From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@...> To:...
Hello everyone. My name is Anne Thomas Manes. I'm an independent consultant. I've been a contributor to the UDDI V2 and V3 specifications, and I'm now a member...
Hello All, I am contributing this recent article I wrote for eAI Journal regarding this very topic. I have been studying this area for awhile and believe that...
Morgenthal, JP
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Dec 22, 2002 2:16 am
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Hi Frank, ... Why? Why do we need to standardize matchmakers? As a result of today's HTML-based Web services being decoupled from search engines an entire ...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 23, 2002 2:13 pm
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Hi Folks, Below I describe a simple technique for evolving the current HTML-based Web service architecture to support the next generation Web services. ...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 23, 2002 2:18 pm
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Hi Anne, ... Excellent! Welcome Anne! ... David spoke briefly about this last week: "The defined format looks interesting and bears watching. I am not a fan...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 23, 2002 3:30 pm
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Hi Folks, The questions and comments by Seairth, Frank, and Anne have been great. One of the things that they have done is help to refine the purpose of this...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 24, 2002 3:19 pm
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Hi Folks, I have started a FAQ sheet: http://www.xfront.com/dist-reg/distributed-registry.html#faq It already contains some excellent questions/answers....
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 24, 2002 5:08 pm
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Clearly "matchmaking" means something much larger to you than it does to me. I had not seen the word used in this context before and surmised (wrongly) that...
Hi Frank, ... I'd be happy to. (This matchmaking stuff is a rather hot topic in my company, that's why I know this term). The term "matchmaker" is simply used...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 26, 2002 3:43 pm
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Roger, I am glad to know that matchmaking is a hot topic, because there is another very important axiom that must not be violated: Never beat a dead horse. ...
Hi Frank, Your questions are very good. I am pleased that you have taken the interest, and time to ask them! ... Remember, a matchmaker doesn't have to be...
Roger L. Costello
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Dec 26, 2002 4:46 pm
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NOW I have the illusion of understanding! ;-) Your proposal is about supporting Web-services spiders. Spiders have their place, and we are better off with them...
Supporting spiders was a goal, but not an end state one. What I mean by this is that, spiders are here today and they are the most widely used method of...
... I've seen you say this before, but I let it pass. I'm not sure it's appropriate to refer to a tModel as a description format. A tModel is simply a name...
... description. I ... standardized. Which ... DAML-S, ... determine a ... which ... is simply ... registry and to ... categorize the ... and you ... can ... ...
Hi Folks, One of the interesting aspects of this architecture is the ability to extend the service description. Read on ... QUESTION Suppose that your company...