Windows Vista introduces a new ‘Network Level Authentication’ mechanism to RDP. It will be intereting to find out what they are doing there exactly, but meanwhile you might want to be able to use your legacy RDP clients to access…
Category: Interoperability
Again through ConsortiumInfo: Minnesota is introducing a bill that will require the state CIO to chose products that support open standards over those that feature proprietary ones. This is definitvely good news, particularly when looking at the extensive definition of…
Since Vista features the new boot loader system, multi-boot is not quite so trivial. There are various guides and FAQs on how to do XP/Vista dual boot (see e.g. here or here), but getting a GRUB based OS (such as…
Marc is working on a nice and *clean* web application description language (WADL) that can be used for non-SOAP web services as well. For an introduction to RESTful web services with JAX-WS, please take a look at his recent post.…
There are a couple of quite interesting developments in the office document formats discussion. One if them being that the Australian National Archive is now moving their entire content to ODF. This can be considered a major victory for ODF…
Pat found this interesting article by Chuck. It is on a Java implementation of the InfoCard protocol. Tags: InfoCard, Interoperability, Java, Identity
Now that I have less time than ususal, it might be a good time to restart some of my GSS-SAML efforts. If you are interested, I suggest you subscribe to saml-mechanism@washington.edu and/or check the archives. To get something for the…
I you would like to understand better what Sun Microsystems is doing in the context of Web Services interoperability, particularly with Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Communication Foundataion (formerly Codename Indigo), please take a look at Harold’s article. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/haroldcarr/archive/2006/02/an_overview_of_1.html#more He…
Interoperability is probably one of the most misused terms in the IT industry in these days. In a former job, I was confronted with actually defining Interoperability or finding an established definition for it. If you search for definitions for…
Interesting timing: just as ATOM 1.0 is finally becoming an IETF/W3C standard, Microsoft publishes her extension to RSS 2.0 here. While the Microsoft extensions are licensed under the Creative Commons ShareAlike license and Microsoft also seems to pledge to not…