Telescopes and views- April 26, 2005 Jon Udell's essay "The wrong end of the telescope " raises some interesting issues and summarizes some thoughts from several sources.They all go to illustrate how difficult it is to put a simple application into a browser page. A part of the problem is that the browserhttpweb server combination was never designed to support the rich applications we are trying to shoe into it. Therefore the issue is not really different ends of the telescope but rather different telescopes. Programming the...http://www.mcdowall.com/2005/04/telescopes-and-views_111453506703158197.html EDI - Simple enough- April 19, 2005 A comment by Mark Baker around EDI got me thinking about the current amount of infrastructure we are building on top of the transport. Today millions of business messages are flowing formatted as EDI messages and thousands of business processes are built using the MEP defined by EDI documents.So what is wrong with just using EDI. Probably a couple of things, at one point the cost of the initial transport hardware and communications infrastructure but this has been solved by the draft AS2...http://www.mcdowall.com/2005/04/edi-simple-enough.html |