Archive for the ‘LINKS’ Category.
October 6, 2001, 3:22 pm
Clay Shirky: Web Services: It’s So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work
That high-pitched sound you hear is the Web Services hype machine revving up, as words like “revolution’ and “paradigm” begin making their regularly scheduled appearance in the press and white papers, where we are promised a Shiny New World of on-the-fly software creation.
The hype is happening just as practical applications for XML-structured data beginning to appear. Web Services can reduce the effort and quicken the process of creating standards between developers or businesses which want to work together, an important if somewhat modest improvement in the Internet’s plumbing.
Unfortunately, though, Web Services are being sold not only as improved plumbing but also as a way to create fantastic new software, seamlessly and automatically connecting any two business processes or applications anywhere on the network as if by magic.
[Scripting News]
October 3, 2001, 11:13 am
October 2, 2001, 6:57 pm
Carnivore substitute keeps Feds honest. NetWitness, a commercial alternative to Carnivore. [The Register]
October 1, 2001, 10:27 am
Spherical Mobile Military Robot. The NY Times has an article
on a new military robot proposed by Ranjan Mukherjee of
Michigan State University. Mukherjee has just received a patent for a
spherical mobile robot design that he has been researching for several
years. When in motion, the robot is a
featureless metal ball. When it comes to rest, it stablizes itself on
three legs and extends sensor and weapon arrays. [robots.net]
September 27, 2001, 10:46 am
September 27, 2001, 7:55 am
XML Divided. Edd Dumbill: XML Divided “So there are points of inflection in our comprehension of the world around us. We are now at such a point in the XML world, too. This is not to say that the future for XML looks bleak — in many ways it’s never looked better — but tomorrow’s XML will be very different from what we’re used to.” [via ZopeNewbies]
September 27, 2001, 7:52 am
Web service invocation sans SOAP. developerWorks: Web service invocation sans SOAP “SOAP has become almost synonymous with Web services, even though it is just one of many possible bindings for accessing Web services. This means that applications that make use of Web services usually do so through APIs tied to a specific implementation of SOAP. This series of articles will describe a more generic, SOAP-independent approach to invoking Web services called the Web Service Invocation Framework (WSIF). It was specifically designed to invoke Web services described using the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) directly, hiding the complexity of underlying access protocols such as SOAP.” [via ZopeNewbies]
