mBsLOG
Welcome to my weblog. It is an unconventional blog in that I am not planning to post daily or weekly, but only as topics of interest emerge. I enjoyed playing a little with my initials and the word blog and am amused by the fact that it is as much something I am slogging through as something I am blogging about. This listing only shows the five most recent posts.
- Here is an index of all the topics with direct links to the post.
- Here are the posts from 2007.
- Here are the posts from 2008.
- Here are the posts from 2009.
- Here are the posts from 2010.
I will try to discipline myself to keep a more or less regular set of reflections coming, but I can't promise. I have disabled commenting and discussion as it ended up being more maintainence and cleanup than I cared to deal with. That doesn't mean your comments and thoughts aren't welcome. Should you wish to comment on what I have said, I will be happy to add your comments verbatim so long as they are not spam. Simply send an email to me at Pitt -- see my home page. I will insert it in the appropriate post with attribution if you wish. Please reference the title and date of the post on which you are commenting. Also, if you want to suggest a topic that might be covered or discussed, let me know and I will try to include it.
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Tue, 01 May 2007
The Next Generation(May, 2007)
Back around the year 2000, Hewlett-Packard introduced an early version of a web services platform called e-speak. It was a little cumbersome to come to grips with at first, but it became clear that it was a marvelous engine with just the right degree of structure. At a time when the semantic web was still just a glimmer, HP had developed a full blown system to deliver vocbulary development, registration, and discovery. It was a wonderful foray into service oriented architectures, but alas it was lost in the turmoil at HP and the growth of web services.
HP was struggling with just how much of the service architecture was to be a part of the engine and how much was to be provided by the users. In a classic market place gamble, they stripped the engine down to the barest components in the believe that wrapper services could be provided by the market.
At the current time, with the growth of application servers, the withdrawal of the public UDDI servers by IBM and Microsoft, and the slow evolution of the ebXML registries standardized by OASIS, we are in a sort of no man's land where we can't effectively build true marketplaces and compose dynamic applications. It will be back with BPEL and the web service extensions. Less a marketplace approach and more of an application server implementation of standards, but it is coming back. It is just a little frustrating that we were so close seven years ago and now we are in this gray area where we can no longer put the whole package together.
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