A consortium lead by Sun today announced the publication of the Web Services Composite Applications Framework (WS-CAF). The framework is a collection of three specifications and “designed to solve problems that arise when multiple Web services are used in combination to support information sharing and transaction processing”.
Don’t worry, I stopped paying attention to the WS-* specs several silly specs ago.
The Mono team is now providing nightly snapshots in three different flavours. They provide release-style tarballs, a tarball of componenets built on that day, and a lightweight distro for bootstrapping.
Bob Hope is dead at the age of 100.
It looks like Werner Vogels will be doing some hardcore research into high-performance XML/soap processing for pub/sub systems.”
Brad Wilson has a good wrapup of Gnomedex for those of us who were on the other side of the country when it happened.
Via Freshmeat, here’s NewsSpotter:
News Spotter is an RSS headline viewer. It distinguishes itself from similar applications through its minimalist user interface, which proactively displays an alert upon receipt of additional news items.
You can snag a tarball or a zip file, or find more info on Sean Gallagher’s blog. It looks like it is written in Java. It reminds me of WinAmp for RSS.
I’m back from California.
I’ve got some catching up to do.