Who does not know and dread the recurring discussion of a topic long thought dead? The most egregious one lately was a discussion about the applicability of RFC 2119 to a particular standard I was working on (to protect the…
Category: Web Services
Service chaining is – in my mind – somewhat underappreciated as use case is identity management. It is being paid some lip service, but often put off as too hard to solve. Yet, many of the issues I face in…
Today, we released the hData technical specifications: hData Record Format and hData Packaging and Network Transport. This is the mail that went out to the mailing lists: Today we are releasing the first public version of the hData specification for…
Marc just made my day by sending me the link to the official submission of WADL to the W3C. Quick background: WADL (Web Application Description Language) is a simple interface definition language, specifically targeted at RESTful applications. It is significantly…
User-centricity – often expressed in the “7 Laws of Identity” – has been a common theme in identity management for a while now. At the heart of these principles lies the desire to empower the end-users of a computer systems…
For some time I have been working with a number of folks at MITRE on a simple representation for electronic health data. Digging into the depth of various standards organizations such as HL7, HITSP, or HIMSS was interesting, painful, and…
For this year’s Balisage in Montreal, we (R. Dingwell, A. Gregorowicz, H. Sleeper, and myself) have been accepted as a late-breaking proposal for our work on hData, which addresses some problems that are currently plaguing electronic health records. Our session…
Working currently on an RelaxNG project, I needed to automate conversion of RNG schemas to a W3C compliant schema in NetBeans. The tool I used to perform the transform is Trang. I added this macro to the build.xml file: <macrodef…
It took a long time, but it seems that the time for an older idea of mine has come: Jeff Hodges is reporting on a report he prepared for the MIT Kerberos group to explore the use of SAML tokens…
Marc recently published a short tutorial on how to use Apache Abdera with Apache Abdera with our reference implementation of JAX-RS, Jersey. His code is server side, i.e. it explains using Jersey and Abdera for creating RESTful web services with…