In July 2003 a consortium of Web services vendors released the Web services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) to the community. WS-CAF is comprised of three specifications that together provide a means of reliably composing individual Web services into larger aggregate applicati... Apr. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 29,735 Replies: 2 |
There has been much debate lately on what exactly WSDL's purpose is, and much of that debate has focused on whether WSDL is an interface definition language (IDL), or whether WSDL is better used to specify message-level contracts (without any associated operational semantics). Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 30,460 Replies: 13 |
In June 2003, the Global Grid Forum (GGF) adopted the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) specification as a GGF standard. OGSI is essential to the Open Grid Computing vision as it is the foundation on top of which the building blocks of future Grid applications will be placed. Jul. 24, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,525 Replies: 1 |







Dr. Savas Parastatidis is the chief software architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Center (NEReSC), Newcastle, UK. He is NEReSC's expert in Grid Computing technologies and standards. Previously, he co-led an R&D team at HP's middleware division that produced the world's first XML-based transactioning system and represented HP during the early stages of the OASIS BTP standardization effort.


















