Loosely Coupled Thinking

Towards Prescriptive SOA Guidance for the Education Industry

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 Read More...

What's changed in WS-I Basic Profile 1.1?

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 Read More...

WS-Addressing submitted to the W3C

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 have Read More...

Comparing WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery

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 specs Read More...

Webcast

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. Read More...

Grady Booch on verticalized tools and Domain Specific Languages

“ ...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 Francisco Read More...

An early implementation of WS-ReliableMessaging (with code)

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 (Universal Read More...

SOA Paper and Presentation from ALT-I-Lab 2004

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 Read More...