May 2005 - XML Nation

  • Starting up again...

    I've been away for a while - traveling, working on product, celebrating my little boy's first birthday, and loosing my Outlook .pst file. But it's time to start again and Don's post about Steve Loughran and Edmund Smith's Alpine work is the perfect motivation...
  • Indigo, WS-* and the WS-I Basic Profile

    The Indigo bindings that support the WS-* protocols use SOAP 1.2, not SOAP 1.1. That makes them incompatible with the WS-I Basic Profile, a standard that many companies require services to comply with. The WS-I Basic Profile was specifically designed...
  • DaveO on protocol abstraction

    I spent 3 days last week hanging out with Ed Pinto from EDS. We had a great time jamming on a whole bunch of SO/WS topics. Ed urged me to read DaveO's post on problems inherent in transport protocol abstraction . It's an excellent read, reflecting Dave...