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August 25th-31st, 2002

Tempted by Cocoon

I find myself intrigued by the architecture and capabilities of Cocoon, an Apache-based (and therefore open source) ...

On-demand applications

I never thought the day would come when I'd find myself agreeing with Tom Siebel, but here we are: "In the ...

Inside the citadel

Adding XML and SOAP security to firewalls is at best a temporary measure, at worst a self-delusion of the worst kind. ...

Still not enough standards to go round

Hardly a day seems to go by without somebody announcing a new web services standards initiative. Earlier this month, ...

More about BPEL4WS

A very useful introduction to the recently-launched BPEL4WS business process specification is now available on the IBM ...


August 18th-24th, 2002

RPC won't wash with SOAP

Using RPC (remote procedure call) to link web services is one of the things that "could actually kill Web services ...

Security breeds complacency

Participating in a big, digital network creates opportunities and threats for all of us. Opportunities to publish our ...

Reaching out to users

The point of web services is to connect people. Connecting computers happens to be an essential intermediate step, but ...

BPM convergence beckons

BPMI.org has welcomed IBM and Microsoft's new business process management specifications in a position paper (PDF, 55k) ...

Alternative views

There are now two ways of viewing this weblog. For an at-a-glance view of the most recent postings — including the ...


August 11th-17th, 2002

Catching the wave

Grand Central needs more customers if it's going to survive, writes Rachel Chalmers of the451 in an analysis ...

An experiment in blogging for profit

Nick Denton, founder of moreover.com, has launched Gizmodo, a blog about gadgets, which he is paying journalist Pete ...

Corporate weblogs

Does blogging have a role to play in how companies present themselves to the world? I've been surprised at how few ...

Triangulate that!

Has Macromedia caught a wave or missed the boat? According to Standard & Poor's analyst Scott Kessler, writing in ...

XML is to Microsoft as PC was to IBM

Back in 1981, IBM's corporate strategists had other things on their mind when a small, skunkworks team at the company's ...


August 4th-10th, 2002

XLANG and WSFL become BPEL

IBM and Microsoft have pooled their existing business process languages to create a new joint specification, Business ...

Beyond encapsulation

Wrapping objects in web services is a bad idea, writes Adam Bosworth, an early champion of XML at Microsoft and now VP ...

Blogging and the killer app

Dan Bricklin's company Trellix this morning announced it has added blogging capabilities, based on Blogger technology, ...

Is WS-I FUBAR?

With a plethora of web services standards initiatives under way — in dozens of separate working groups at an ...

You can't buck the network

Former British PM Margaret Thatcher once famously remarked, "You can't buck the market." She was referring to the ...

Ray Ozzie goes public

The founder of Groove Networks (and before that, creator of Lotus Notes) has forsaken the safety of his company's ...


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