About Mapping
There's an interesting comment on Ted Neward's blog which is related to what I've been saying here:
Ian Fairman wrote:This whole approach of munging your own shipping request schema to the parcel company's schema reminds me of how some people would tout entity beans as reusable simply by using object-relational mapping tools to map them to 3rd party database schemas. Unfortunately the "magic" in these mapping tools...[Read more]
The place for UDDI
A place for UDDI after all?. [...] I can understand the desire to see WSDL die--Lord knows, after having experienced firsthand the complications of building a truly interoperable web service using WSDL, I share his desire entirely--but I still don't see the relevance of UDDI in the service-oriented architecture. In many ways, it feels like Don and Clemens want UDDI to turn into some kind of centralized "workflow" (although I hate using that...
Thank you, W2K!
Dear W2K, dear WXP. Thanks. You both served me well. This week I will be switching to the next generation for good.
Steve and Clemens all over Europe!
Steve and Clemens all over Europe.
This going to be great fun! I will be doing a speaking tour with my friend Steve Swartz (who was/is the architect of most of the new things in Windows Server 2003's COM+ 1.5). The topic is scalable application architectures and we have given it the unmarketable title "Scale, extend, stay running and don't forget to lock the door".
It's 7 cities (Warsaw, Bukarest, Moscow, Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris, Lisbon) in...
Reconsidering UDDI
Reconsidering UDDI
For the record: I was wrong when I said this here. When I started to look into and think about service oriented architectures*, I understood the relevance of UDDI.
To cite Don (more than half a year ago): "If WSDL and UDDI were both hanging from a cliff and I could only save one of them, it would be UDDI." And in case someone didn't notice, yet, I really, really want WSDL to...