(Untitled)- May 14, 2002 With Games of Havoc, Men Will Be Boys. The best-selling and most violent video game in America is Grand Theft Auto 3, in which players are rewarded for having sex with a prostitute, killing her and stealing her money. New York Times: Technology Interesting. And I thought sneaking up on a thug and stabbing him in the back was realistic (Solider of Fortune). I might have to rent this and see what all the fuss is about... Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog I can't help but to compare such...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/13.html#a100 (Untitled)- May 14, 2002 Thomas A. Edison. "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." Quotes of the Day A philosophy that many engineering companies should adhere to... Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog Some engineering companies do, then have to conform to a concent decree for it. :-)http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/13.html#a99 (Untitled)- May 13, 2002 Via Haughey, a great quote from Pascal inventor Niklaus Wirth: "People seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication." Tatoo that on your forehead, post-it on your monitor, send it to the editors of XML.Com, and to the leaders of the W3C. Scripting News A mantra for our time.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/13.html#a98 (Untitled)- May 9, 2002 I think I need to say this in an unambiguous way as possible: I think that every SOAP and WSDL implementation should support every feature of the SOAP and WSDL specifications. That is the only way to insure true universal interop. SOAP and WSDL are complex specifications with lots of surface area (including all of XML Schema) with lots of special edge cases where they bump up against each other and other specifications. It is practically impossible for every implementation to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/09.html#a97 (Untitled)- May 9, 2002 Simon Fell Keith & Mike both seem happy to subset SOAP and WSDL. Wave bye-bye to the chance that SOAP interop means anything more than interops with MSFT. Where are all the MSFT guys who were up in arms 12-18 months ago about subsets Oh come on! Choosing not to support a given feature of a specification is very different from publishing a subset of a specification and implementing only that. The first case merely reflects the the limitations of a platform, the specific needs.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/09.html#a96 (Untitled)- May 8, 2002 Peter Drayton points to A Comparison of Alternative Encoding Mechanisms for Web Services which has a comparison of XMill and other compression techniques used in a web service context. I've tended to discount XMill, and many other compression oriented solutions, in this context because there doesn't seem to be a reasonable way to implement them over a stream of XML. Having to buffer every message puts a lot more memory pressure on a server and that should impact throughput. However,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/08.html#a95 (Untitled)- May 8, 2002 Simon Fell: If you're going to provide section 5 support, then do it, if you don't like section 5, then don't support it, but providing a subset just confuses the issue. While I won't encourage selective implemenation of standards, I do think there is an interesting point to be made here. To my knowledge, no implementation really supports everything in SOAP and WSDL. You get a venn diagram of features. I assert that the features in the center are the only ones that are really...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/08.html#a94 (Untitled)- May 8, 2002 Simon Fell says "in my experience the MSTK is significantly more compliant with the specs than ASP.NET web services." I have to agree with Keith. Interoperability tests show that the STK and ASP.Net have more or less the same level of interoperability. To my knowledge, no SOAPWSDL implementation is 100% complete. Of the features listed by Keith and Simon, the STK doesn't support sparse arrays or partial arrays. Multi-dinensional arrays are supported only if you know how to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/08.html#a93 (Untitled)- May 7, 2002 I want to shed some light on why the STK supports DIME and not SwA. This topic has come up on soapbuilders. The purpose of this post isn't to defend the party line nor to dispute it. It is just an attempt to explain how we ended up where we did. Many people may not know that the STK is a product of the Webdata XML team at Microsoft. We do System.Xml, MSXML, and various other pieces of XML infrastructure. A different team is responsible for Microsoft's SOAP and XML Web Services vision and the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/06.html#a92 (Untitled)- May 1, 2002 In response to threads started on xml-dev, I wrote up the following on the topic of SOAP, HTTP, and REST. I take the view that SOAP and HTTP are at the same level of the network protocol stack. The more I understand about HTTP and REST the more it seems that using HTTP as a transport for SOAP is a mistake. It is convenient for SOAP, but I can see how it is at odds with HTTP and why that legitimately bothers some people. To SOAP's credit, it is not tied to HTTP, but can be easily layered on...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/2002/05/01.html#a91 |