... In some cases maybe. I could imagine session state being passed between parties as a URL being preferrable to a cookie style mechanism. Bill de hÓra...
... Yup. I think it's what the RESTifarians refer to as "hypertext as the engine of application state." Operations return URIs that point to resources that...
IMO, passing information by value - i.e. in the form of documents or large-grained messages - is essential for post-RPC Web services scenarios. Still, I...
... FWIW, I had no problem with SOAP 1.1. It was SOAP 1.0 and 0.9 which I had issues with, as they prevented anybody from using HTTP as a transfer protocol...
I suppose a related question is what do you all think of passing WS-Addressing endpoint references to explicitly refer to resources at endpoints rather than ...
IBM seemed to be very focused on the application platform as opposed to the application. I just copped this interesting article: =============================...
I suppose some of the ideas are that by explicitly defining resources, we can explicitly associate properties with them and that separating out the resource...
... See http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-add/ for the rationale. (I'm pretty sure that Mark can point us to several pieces he...
... Awww, that's no fun. 8-) ... It's that darned argument again, sigh. Without protocol dependance, identifiers can never be dereferenced, and you're doomed...
... Absolutely. I believe that is a key contribution of the Web, and I'm glad to see other distributed systems efforts picking up on it. ... Agreed. If...
Have you any thoughts about the XCAP protocol. Very Service Oriented, I would say, and Restful too. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-05-29-a.html I have...
<<Due to industry enthusiasm surrounding SOA, it's easy to assume that the path to SOA is simply a matter of wrapping existing assets in Web services. Although...
I have just uploaded a paper on behalf of Dickon to the Commercial Corner folder in the Files section. Dickon is an articulate member of this Group and I am...
... Perhaps if you offered your own views in addition to asking others for theirs, that might help seed a discussion? Do you think it's RESTful? Mark. -- Mark...
<<The marketplace tells you that "middleware is everywhere" when all along it should wise up and recognize that "middleware is dead." Because that's the new...
If you build financial systems you will doubtless be familiar with FIX. You might be also familiar with IFX (dyslexics apart). Here is an announcement which...
I have just read a report on Sun's plans for its Jxta peer2peer networking: <<Sun Microsystems is planning to incorporate software developed through its...
... Hmm, the main thing I like about Jini is JavaSpaces, and the main thing I like about JavaSpaces is that it provides a template for JxtaSpaces / XML Spaces....
... I would say YES. GET/PUT/DELETE on URIS It is a generic XML document editing protocol, used by the IETF to publish/change presence lists etc. The good...
... Can I ask in what way XML spaces would be 'ahead' of JavaSpaces? _________________________________________________________________ Plan your next US...
... Ahead on the dimension of being more loosely coupled -- there's nothing you can do with an XML Space that you couldn't do with JavaSpaces, but XML makes...
ZapThink chooses to play the proverbial Devil's Adcvocate on occasion: ============================================= When Not to Use an SOA ZapFlash By Jason...
... Yep, it definitely got that bit right. The use of http URIs, while not required by REST, is also quite encouraging. 8-) ... That's my kinda thinking! 8-)...
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... Yes, most Web services proponents sound like they're advocating REST; "loosely coupled, document exchange", etc.. This is fairly easily explained, I think....
... I wonder if what we might call in this thread as "RDFSpaces" would be ahead of that, in your perspective. The same benefits as you describe [and all...
... I would say that NOTHING is missing: XCAP provides very precisely EVERYTHING that is necessary to define and use applicative services for the web. It...
