August, 2004

e-Week just published a short article about the activities of the Redwood Group. The Redwood Group is an effort to provide guidance and recommendations to the Education industry. You can download a presentation that communicates more info about the Redwood...

Sherman Mohler of Cisco's Learning Institute completed a comparison of WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 with WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 . I've included a copy of the document below for your enjoyment. New Requirements as of WS-I 1.1 R9980 - An ENVELOPE MUST conform...

WS-Addressing has been submitted to the W3C! Its important to note that, despite some FUD to the contrary, all web services specifications will be going into a standards organizations such as W3C. Before the specs get to a "standards body" they will...

Dave Orchard has posted a nice comparison of WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery . I've been looking for something like this for a while now and was dreading having to write it myself. Now we can build on the work that Dave has started. The actual...

We recently gave a webcast to publicize the Integration & Interop Architectural Theme. Its archived here if you missed it. Let us know if you have any questions. More detailed webcasts and whitepapers coming soon.

“ ...with IBM aligning more and more of its field to specific verticals, is that there is such a domain-specific language and culture in those verticals that you can get middleware ” Grady correctly identifies why the fabled “ San...

The Microsoft Enterprise Solutions Framework (ESF) debuted at ALT-I-Lab 2004 . The ESF is an integration framework for Public Sector that consists of the following components: · Synchronization Services · Message-based synchronization...

I've uploaded a paper and presentation that I co-wrote with Scott Thorne ( OKI ) and Stuart Sim ( Sun ) for ALT-I-Lab . Here is the abstract from the paper: At the present time the large community of educational systems and content providers and their...