links for 2007-02-04
Sun: WS-Addressing the first way to specify SOAP endpoints. “Putting aside the fact that URLs have done this since before XMLRPC existed” Before XML existed even. (tags: rest web uri webservices soap)
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Paul Prescod, the RESTafarian Most High Nice interview. (tags: paulprescod rest soa webservices soap restvsoa restvsoap xmlrpc)
View ArticleSpace of versions, check!
Dave Orchard on versioning; The fundamental problem with a version # in a document is that it doesn’t provide for a given document to be valid under more than one version. What we really need is to be...
View ArticleMicrosoft gig
I’ve spent some time over the past couple of months helping Microsoft with RESTful issues for two (soon to be three, I hope) different groups there. One of those is the WCF team, and Omri has just...
View ArticleGoogle Gears: too much interface?
So I had a quick look at Google Gears this morning. Unlike some, I do most definitely see value in supporting disconnected scenarios, not because I don’t see pervasive wired and wireless networks being...
View ArticleHow not to bridge XMPP and HTTP
BOSH is a specification that defines how XMPP can be used over HTTP. It’s obviously written by people who know what they’re talking about, because they’ve got good requirements, and get into great...
View ArticleFence sitting arguments
Mark Little responds to an interesting post by Bill Burke about compensation based transactions. I don’t really have any direct response to the gist of that discussion, but wanted to highlight a couple...
View ArticleMedia type centralization is a feature, not a bug
Via Stefan, a proposal from the WSO2 gang for an approach to decentralizing media types and removing the requirement for the registration process. Been there, tried that. I used to think that was a...
View ArticleSimpleDB did screw up
David Peterson defends SimpleDB‘s use of HTTP GET for mutation actions by appealing to the HTTP spec itself, specifically pipelining where it says; Clients SHOULD NOT pipeline requests using...
View ArticleWill distribute business objects for food
I used the subject line of this blog entry as my signature 11 years ago when I saw the writing on the wall at Nortel, and wanted to announce my interest in looking elsewhere for a job. Ok, perhaps it...
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