XMLFrag SOAP header
This HTML document titled “XMLFrag header” describes a proposal I wrote for a header that would allow one to target a SOAP message to a subset of the resource to which the message is sent. This is...
View ArticleGutting the SOAP processing model
One thing I have constantly witnessed in the SOAP design work I have been involved in is the fear of headers. There are several aspects to this, and it’s very hard to sort out the causes and the...
View ArticleHow not to re-use XML technologies
I like XML. Call me crazy but I find it relatively easy to work with. Whether it is hand-editing an XML document in a text editor, manipulating it programmatically (as long as you pick a reasonable...
View ArticleWS-ManagementHammer: don’t do it but if you are going to do it anyway then…
With the IBM/Microsoft/Intel/HP WSDM/WS-Management convergence now implicitly (if not yet officially) dead, it will be interesting to see what IBM is going to do with WSRF. WSRF is being used today,...
View ArticleRESTful JMX access from someone who knows both sides
Anyone interested in application manageability and/or management integration should read about Jean-Francois Denise’s prototype for RESTful Access to JMX Instrumentation. Not (at least for now) as...
View ArticleWS Resource Access at W3C: the good, the bad and the ugly
As far as I know, the W3C is still reviewing the proposal that was made to them to create a new working group to standardize WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration and WS-MetadataExchange....
View ArticleCMIS, APP, Zen-SOAP and WS-KitchenSink: some data points
The recent release of an early draft of a content management specification (CMIS, for Content Management Interoperability Services) provides an interesting perspective on not just SOAP-versus-REST but...
View ArticleState modeling: party over, go home now.
Is the Northwest weather softening Savas? Is it the food? I just read the “how do I model state? let me count the ways” article that he, Ian Foster, Paul Watson and Mark McKeown published in the...
View ArticleWS Resource Access working group starting at W3C
Things went quiet for a while, but the W3C Web Services Resource Access Working Group has finally taken life, as was announced last week. It’s a well-know PR trick to announce bad news on a Friday such...
View ArticleIs notification wrapping getting a bum rap?
Looks like the question of whether to wrap SOAP-based notifications is back. Like Gil I prefer to stay away from wrapping notifications but my reasons are somewhat different. I am not convinced by...
View ArticleUploading a file to a Windows machine via WMI/WS-Management
[UPDATED 2009/6/30: Check the following post for a more practical solution.] Here is a simple way to upload a text (i.e. not binary) file to a Windows machine. Because my interest is to be able to do...
View ArticleREST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)
In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management protocols. As someone who was involved...
View ArticleREST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 2: configuration management)
What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data centers and in Clouds)? Part 1 of the “REST in practice for IT and Cloud management” investigation looked at Cloud APIs...
View ArticleMissing out on the OCCI fun
As a recovering “design by committee” offender I have to be careful when lurking near standards groups mailing list, for fear my instincts may take over and I might join the fray. But tonight a few...
View ArticleYoga framework for REST-like partial resource access
A tweet by Stefan Tilkov brought Yoga to my attention, “a framework for supporting REST-like URI requests with field selectors”. As the name suggests, “Yoga” lets you practice some contortions that...
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