…contains a nice collection of articles and factoids on the Open Document Format debate. Please take a look at it here.
Category: Interoperability
My recent GSS-SAML musings lead me to think about the relation of security, applications and platforms. My firm belief until recently was that security should be handled low in the stack: in the network protocol layer, the operating system, etc.…
Once more, Microsoft is targeting ECMA as the consortium to sign of on their technology. Just as a few years ago, when they submitted parts of the CLR and C#. This time it is the Office ’12’ formats, which have…
The open document discussion is also raging within the halls of the European institutions. Please see for a report and some industry responses here. On that page, you will also find a letter from Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microssystems, Inc.…
Living in Massachusetts, I strongly support the state’s move to migrate their publications and documents to a truely open format (i.e. OASIS Open Document). Now I recently ran across a public petition to the German Parliament to enact a similar…
Due to very limited internet connection, I have to be brief. Here are some of the result of my trip to IETF 64: There is definitively a fairly broad interest in using SAML within the GSS-API framework. A small group…
It’s a little geeky and doesn’t carry much importance, but I just liked it from a political point of view… NetBeans 5.0 Beta on Windows Vista September 2005 CTP: I used the 1.5.0 update 5 JDK (from http://java.sun.com/) and the…
The new NetBeans web services client is quite nice. It is now almost as easy as with Visual Studio to integrate a web service into your application: After pointing the IDE to the WSDL, it generates the necessary proxies and…
Simon Guest and Kirill Gavrylyuk gave the .NET/Java Interoperability session on PDC this year. They didn’t present any new groundbreaking technology, mostly the stuff we have already seen on JavaOne, but instead show RM, MTOM and Security. The format was…
Didn’t you also find it somewhat remarkable that the “pillars” of “Longhorn” have been supiciously missing from the recent Beta and CTP releases, including the PDC release? What is Microsoft doing here – are they planning to release Avalon and…