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BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask Head To OASIS
John Evdemon, co-chair of the WS-BPEL technical committee, has announced that BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask are going to OASIS. Adding a standard approach to human interaction support to WS-BPEL is something many people have been asking for and this could be the solution.
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HTTP Being Revised
Mark Nottingham notes that the HTTPbis working group had its first face-to-face meeting recently to discuss updates to HTTP.
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OASIS Composability Within SOA Symposium
OASIS announces a 2008 symposium on Composability within SOA to address the technical and business facets therein. The symposium will be an opportunity for researchers and business users to discuss challenges, best practices and experiences.
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Is the future of JavaScript ECMAScript 4?
The discussion on the future of ECMAScript has been quite lively lately. Brendan Eich kicked off a flurry of posts about ECMAScript 4 and if that is the right path.
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Lord Of The Rings: Web Style
Paul Downey has produced a Lord of the Rings style adventuring map for SOA, titled The Web Is Agreement.
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Microsoft Releases JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
Historically JavaScript compatibility has been a major problem for web developers. Variations between the official spec, the de-facto standard, and the various implementations have kept many a developer up all night. To address this, Microsoft has released a document detailing these incompatibilities in the four most popular browsers.
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Visual Basic 9 Specification Released
Microsoft has released the specifications for Visual Basic 9. This implies that the language is hardening and probably will not change much between now and the release date, expected to be later this year.
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Interview: BT's Chief WS Architect Paul Downey on "Loving the Web"
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks Paul Downey, Chief Web Services Architect for BT, about Web services standards, Paul's work in the XML Databinding working group, WS-* vs. REST, and cool stuff BT offers to developers.
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The SCA Debate
David Chappell, from Chappell & Associates, started a debate on SCA by reasoning that "Microsoft Should Not Support SCA".
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Interview with SCA standards members and users
InfoQ took time to talk to some of the driving forces behind SCA at the OpenCSA Plenary held recently.
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WS-Addressing Working Group Closes
After over 3 years of effort in W3C, the WS-Addressing Working Group has closed down. Although there have been a few complaints about WS-A over the years, most people seem to agree it has been a good thing for WS-*.
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OOXML has been Rejected as an ISO Standard
Microsoft's attempt to officially standardize the Office Open XML Format (OOXML) by the ISO-Standards ISO/IEC DIS 29500 has failed. National standard bodies have been asked to give their vote on OOXML by September 2.
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Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) Becomes a W3C Recommendation
The Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) reached recommendation status on August 28 2007, turning it into a "W3C Standard".
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The Problem With SCA?
Eric Newcomer comments on David Chappells assertion that SCA participants have differing views about what aspects of SCA are important. In David's view it is the new Java programming model. Eric disagrees: in his view it's the service assembly model.
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OpenXML Spreadsheet Formulas Called into Question
Rob Weir has called the spreadsheet formulas into question. Lost in the posturing and grandstanding are some serious holes in the specification.