After quite some time without posting, I’d like to retake it and break momentarily the series on USDL (on which both Torsten Leidig from SAP and I have continued working) to quickly post an interesting survey on Web APIs I just found out about. The survey comes from the Trove blog and it was aimed [...]
Just as the world of services started drifting away from complex technology stacks and getting closer to simple, HTTP-based, possibly RESTful solutions, SAP have generated a new large, ambitious, all-encompassing specification named Unified Service Description Language (USDL). What is most remarkable of this approach is that it is not yet another WS-* technology or another process [...]
Last week I gave a keynote at the 4th Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing collocated with the 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. In this talk, I revisited some of the existing issues limiting the uptake of services on the Web, and highlighted how the [...]
After quite some time with a rather static and consequently outdated Web site, I’ve finally decided to move to more appropriate solution that would allow me to maintain its content better. The new version of the site includes further information about some of the latest activities I’m involved in. This includes some concrete details on particular [...]