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[sffoundry distributed] January 13, 2003

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January 13, 2003

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Web Services with AppleScript and Perl (Thursday September 26, @10:20AM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/09/26/1522229

Randal Schwartz has written an article entitled, Web Services with AppleScript and Perl." Schwartz describes how to write complementary AppleScript and Perl scripts that communicate with each other using SOAP. #======= NEWS =======#
Web Services with AppleScript and Perl (Thursday September 26, @10:20AM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/09/26/1522229

Randal Schwartz has written an article entitled, Web Services with AppleScript and Perl." Schwartz describes how to write complementary AppleScript and Perl scripts that communicate with each other using SOAP. xmlBlaster 0.80 released (Thursday September 26, @10:17AM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/09/26/1520253

XmlBlaster 0.80 has been released. XmlBlaster is a publish/subscribe and point-to-point MOM server (message-oriented middleware) that exchanges messages between publishers and subscribers. The message is described with XML-encoded meta information. Messages may contain anyything, including GIF images, Java objects, Python scripts, XML data, a word document, and plain text. Communication with the server is based on CORBA (using JacORB) or RMI or XML-RPC, clients are free to choose their preferred protocol. Other protocols like email, socket or SOAP may be plugged in.

New WSDL Editor (Wednesday September 18, @01:32PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/1835249

Altova announced that the new version of its XML editor, XMLSPY 5, now includes a WSDL editor. It allows you to edit, view, visualize, and validate any WSDL file.

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Paper on Advanced Web Services (Tuesday September 10, @11:47PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/09/11/0449234

Several members of W3C's Web Services Architecture group have coauthored a paper, "Advanced Web Services". The paper offers ideas for enhancing the current Web Services architecture.

Grid Computing Planet Conference & Expo (Tuesday September 10, @09:21PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/09/11/0230216

Grid Computing Planet Conference & Expo Fall 2002 is in Boston, Massachusetts, October 28-29, 2002. Songnian Zhou, founder of Platform Computing Inc., is a keynote speaker.

Businesses Prepare for Grid (Tuesday September 10, @01:39PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/1843214

From Globe and Mail: "Businesses will soon be able to tap into the power of a virtual supercomputer by harnessing the energy of idle PCs anywhere in the world thanks to breakthroughs in so-called grid computing." Mentions Platform LS5 and the Globus Toolkit.

Making Perl Apps .NET-compliant (Wednesday August 28, @11:35AM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/08/28/1637241

From DevX: "Learn how CPAN Perl modules can be made automatically available to the .NET framework. The technique involves providing small PerlNET mediators between Perl and .NET and knowing when, where, and how to modify."

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A J2EE Client for the Google API (Saturday August 10, @10:18PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/08/11/0321214

IBM WebSphere Technical Journal has published a technical article entitled, "Building a J2EE Web Services Client for the Google Web API Using WebSphere Studio Application Developer".

The Community OpenORB 1.3.0 BETA2 released (Saturday August 10, @10:17PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/08/11/0318233

The Community OpenORB 1.3.0 BETA2 is out. The OpenORB community is proud to release the second beta of "The Community OpenORB" product suite version 1.3. This release follows BETA1 after 2 months of beta testing where important bugs were fixed. The archives of all packages can be found at the SF project download area: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=43608 Have fun, The Community OpenORB Team Changes: ======== A complete list of changes per package is available in the WHATSNEW file included with each module. Highlight of changes follows. OpenORB: -------- - Added support for local calls. - Better codeset support. - Added fix to avoid BAG_MAGIC exceptions when running OpenORB with JDK1.4 and NT4.0. - Added configuration enhancement to allow the control of TCP_NODELAY feature on both the client and server side. RMIoverIIOP: ------------ - Added JDK 1.4.0 support. JDK 1.2.2 support was removed. SSL: ---- - Fixed bug #577758 (SSL allows unsecured connections...). Bug Reporting: Please report any problem you find to the SourceForge mailing list openorb-users@lists.sf.net. When the problem is identified as a bug it will be filed at the SourceForge bug tracking facilities. --Jesper Pedersen

OASIS Hosts UDDI; UDDI v3 Pending (Tuesday July 30, @12:26PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/07/30/1729225

According to ZDNet and Infoworld, UDDI standards work will be transferred to OASIS. This news comes with the pending release of version 3 of the UDDI spec, and signifies a shift in attitude from a global "yellow pages" repository for Web Services, to internal directories located behind firewalls.

Complex Data Types using Java and SOAP (Saturday June 29, @11:34PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/0437239

O'Reilly and Associates is publishing on the Web excerpts on complex data types from its book, Java and SOAP

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Sun Joins Microsoft and IBM on WS-Security Spec (Saturday June 29, @11:32PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/0433256

Wired reports: "Sun Microsystems said Thursday it will join rivals Microsoft and IBM in developing a technical standard to make sure Web services transactions are secure. Sun made the decision to join them on the WS-Security Web Services specification after getting assurances from them that they would not charge other companies to license any technology associated with the specification, said Bill Smith, director of Liberty Alliance technology for Sun."

The Community OpenORB 1.3.0 BETA1 is out. (Saturday June 29, @11:24PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/0425203

This release includes many bugfixes, JDK 1.4 support (not for RMIoverIIOP yet), a new ant build system, code cleanups, and minor feature enhancements. The complete release notes can be found here

Announcing Vienna Grid (Friday June 21, @03:42AM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/21/0843207

Vienna Grid is a lightweight Java framework for distributed computing.

Sun Developing Web Services Framework (Sunday June 16, @06:26PM) http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/16/2329221

From CNET: "Senior Sun executives have issued an edict to internal programmers to quickly create a software 'framework' that addresses what they see as potential security weaknesses in existing Web services standards, a source familiar with the plan said. Sun has begun sharing details of the framework with potential partners and is working as quickly as possible to have an announcement ready by late summer or early fall, sources said."

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