During TechEd 2008, I participated in a Panel discussion on Web Services Interoperability. Microsoft just put up the tape on their TechNet Library site. They also have a WMV video feed, and a MP3 audio-only feed.
Category: Web Services
Just back from Orlando, here are some takeaways from this year’s TechEd 2008 for IT-pros: Interoperability with SOAP based web services is progressing: I was part of a panel on interoperability, moderated by Chris Haddad. It was a fairly diverse…
Dare wrote an interesting piece on why RESTful service are much better off without an interface definition language. He is especially picking up on teve Vinoski’s IDLs vs. Human Documentation post, which emphasizes human readable documentation over IDLs. I am…
Here is a small update on available .NET FastInfoset (X.891) libraries: Noemax FastInfoset.NET – I have been talking to them from very early on. Liquid XML Compression – a relatively new (at least to me) implementation that supports .NET 2.0…
OASIS has published a draft web service profile for XACML, called WS-XACML. Now, this seems to get very interesting, since it has the potential to truely deliver ‘User-Centric’ identity (as opposed to Infocard’s ServiceProvider-centric identity). The significant difference here is…
WS-Federation 1.1 is out… and skipping through the TOC, I have this strange feeling of deja vu.
Interesting news from the Compact Framework group: They are planning on releasing a subset of WCF on the Compact Framework (i.e. their mobile edition). This is quite interesting, not the least because a lot of their mobile devices are frequently…
My paper on persistent AJaX is to be published in the Research Disclosure Journal. Please find it here. There are no new additions, just a formal publication. AJaX Web 2.0
Here you can find the OSIS response to the OSP. I think that this reposonse is – particularly in the context of OSIS and related efforts – quite appropriate. The obvious issues with the covenant, as also pointed out by…
Microsoft today announced their “Open Specifications Promise“, essentially a non-assertion covenant for a huge chunk of WS-* protocols. This OSP means (as fas as I can tell – and I am NOT a lawyer ;-)) that people can start implementing…