Then: Web services standards
One of the most frustrating aspects of how Web services standards shot themselves in the foot via unchecked complexity is that plenty of people were pointing out the problem as it happened. Mark Baker (to whom I noticed Don Box also paid tribute recently) is the poster child. I remember Tom Jordahl [...]
Then: Web services standards
One of the most frustrating aspects of how Web services standards shot themselves in the foot via unchecked complexity is that plenty of people were pointing out the problem as it happened. Mark Baker (to whom I noticed Don Box also paid tribute recently) is the poster child. I remember Tom Jordahl [...]
Remember 2006? Things were starting to fall into place for IT management integration and automation:
SDD was already on its way to cleanly describe/package/manage the lifecycle of simple and composite applications alike,
the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to “desired-state [...]
What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs? For all the arguments we had in the design of WSDM and WS-Management, this was one fundamental concept that took little discussion before everyone agreed: that the protocol (the interaction model and the on-the-wire shape of the messages used) should be [...]
IBM, Fujitsu and CA have recently proposed a charter for a new OASIS technical committee, called the Symptoms Autonomic Framework (SAF) TC. Including a specification candidate and other submitted documents, listed here.
For context, you need to remember the Common Base Event (CBE) specification that IBM has shopped around for a long time, initially hand in [...]