http://www.coactus.com/blog Topics in Web based integration Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:09:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the position paper we recently submitted to the W3C/OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax. The best mobile Ajax application ... is the one that's never written A position paper for the W3C/OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax by Mark Baker of Coactus ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2007/08/mobile-ajax-workshop-position-paper/ I'm pleased to announce that Stuart Charlton and I have had our tutorial proposal for OOPSLA '07 accepted. Our topic, as you can probably guess, is REST and the Web, and the (working) title is The Web: Distributed Objects Realized! We'll be talking about REST and the Web ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2007/05/rest-at-oopsla/ David Baron of Mozilla has chimed in on a topic near and dear to much of the work we do at Coactus. It looks like it's part one of a series; I look forward to the rest. One observation; it looks like David's using the term "versioning" to mean what I call "explicit versioning", ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2007/03/david-baron-on-versioning/ It's been a week since the W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing wrapped up, and I've had some time to reflect on it. On the plus side, there's been some very welcome progress in Web services vendors moving towards the Web. Having Web services stalwarts Chris Ferris and ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2007/03/thoughts-on-the-w3c-enterprise-services-workshop/ My slides for the W3C Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop. It's a short presentation because I anticipated (and received!) lots of questions. The objective was to drill down to the primary technical reason why I believe the Web is better; it's the same reason I've been writing about a ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2007/02/w3c-workship-slides-online/ Starting with the Web A position paper for the W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, by Mark Baker of Coactus Consulting. My position For those that might not be aware of my position regarding Web services, I will state it here for clarity. I believe that the Web, since its inception, ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2007/01/starting-with-the-web/ Another way to look at the validation problem is through the eyes of a software architect. We're often concerned about "encapsulation", the practice of keeping related business logic and data together. That practice can take the form of "objects" in OO systems, or just through the partitioning of ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2007/01/two-more-reasons-why-validation-is-still-harmful/ We don't get a lot of enjoyment about trampling sacred cows here at Coactus, honest we don't. But we see so much bad practice out there - more so recently - that we feel compelled to speak out. Today's sacred cow is document validation, such as is performed by technologies ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2006/12/validation-considered-harmful/ I've elaborated on an earlier blog post about reuse over at InfoQ with an article titled The Lost Art of Separating Concerns. Check it out and let me know if this helps you understand REST's value-add over SOA/WS any better. http://www.coactus.com/blog/2006/12/the-lost-art-of-separating-concerns/ I've been doing a lot of writing recently (most of it yet to be published) on a specific topic that I first wrote about here a while back. The topic is important because it's the answer to a question I was asked (offline) a few weeks ago; In your opinion, ... http://www.coactus.com/blog/2006/10/one-thing/