Tuesday, August 06, 2002

Summer Reading. I finally had a chance to catch up on some of the backlog of web-services articles and papers on my desk. Here's a list of some of the goodies I found in the stack: Intermediaries. A whitepaper from Primordial that suggests vertical hubs will replace the current crop of horizontal web-services network vendors. Transactions. A thorough review of the technical issues surrounding transactions unders web services. Why ACID won't work, and an intro to the Business Transaction Protocol (BTP). Break on Through. John Hagel and John Seely Brown's CEO's Guide to the New IT Strategy. Companies will soon buy their information technologies as services provided over the Internet rather than own and maintain their own hardware and software. (This is a superb 23-page PDF, which I assume portends Hagel's next book. Too many good quotes to list here.) Where Will Web Services Be Deployed? More good Hagel. Don't forget Part Two. "Early adoption is proceeding along two parallel tracks. On one track, IT organizations are launching experiments with the implementation of Web services technology...The second track consists of business line executives facing real, near-term business issues - most commonly, these days, how to get more operating (expense and asset) savings quickly." Why SSL Doesn't Cut It. SSL secures the connection, not the message. It's also bound to HTTP. [Source: Julian Bond] Specs Unite Partners. "Together, WSCI (Web Services Choreography Interface) and BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), introduced late last month, should provide business analysts and software engineers with a view of how business processes perform in various business-to-business scenarios." Also discusses IBM's Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) and Microsoft's XLANG. [Source: eWeek] The Role of Web Services in the Financial Services Industry. Gartner G2. Interesting for all, considering that financial services tend to lead in such technologies. [Source: Scott Loftesness, Glenbrook Partners] [Doug Kaye: Web Services Strategies] 9:14:43 PM

Push to Test. Push To Test. Posted on a jython ml I'm on was something about Push To Test, an open source web service testing framework written in java, with jython as the scripting language for the test-bots. Mike, is this the one you were testing, or another one? [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] Actually - it wasn't, but it looks cool. I'll check it out more today. I was looking at maxQ and Latka before. [rebelutionary] 7:03:37 PM

Part-Time MBA Profiles [Business Week: Business Schools] 7:02:22 PM

Useful Game Theory Site Matt Mower: I know nothing about Game Theory really so I Googled and found this site which has some good basic information. [Curiouser and curiouser!] 6:50:33 PM

The Memory Hole [New York Times: Politics] so, the government (specifically, office of management and budget) has taken to rewriting history -- replacing documents the documents they actually released with new documents (with the approved facts) that bear the date of the original document. 10:29:55 AM