Steve: Developing on the Edge - Web Services Resource Access Working Group
Steve: Developing on the Edge
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Web Services Resource Access Working Group

A Proposed W3C working group, because, according to the submitters, accessing data about a resource through Web services is an area of the Web services architecture that has yet to be fully realized.

That is something that is very hard to take with a straight face; it very much depends on your definition of "Web", for example.

I actually added WSRF support to Alpine; it isn't that bad to do. It is just of limited value. See Savas Parastatidis and Jim Webber, "Assessing the Risk and Value of Adopting Emerging and Unstable Web Services Specifications", Technical Report CS-TR-851, School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, UK, Jul 2004

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On 8 July 2008 at 05: 16 Rowland Watkins commented:
Hi Steve,
Saw that link from a DZone article - it seems that Microsoft has quietly left the WS-Convergence gang, yet supports WS-MetadataExchange, WS-Transfer, and WS-Enumeration in WCF. Maybe WS-ResourceTransfer wasn't for them!
Using some parts of WSRF is OK - WS-Resource, WS-ResourceLifetime and WS-BaseFaults is kind of useful. When I was in the UK, I contributed to <a href="http://www.gria.org">GRIA</a>, an SOA (was Grid!) middleware, supports the subset of WSRF as above. We also "supported" WS-ResourceProperties - threw an exception if anyone attempted to use them. This was based on detailed analysis (including security) done in the <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14190/1/D2.2.2-public1.0.pdf">SIMDAT</a> project, which discussed just how much of WSRF and OSGA profiles could be safely adopted for business (secion 3.2 onwards). Although the report is quite old, WSRF really hasn't moved on, so hopefully it will be quietly buried (might have already).
Cheers,
Rowland
On 8 July 2008 at 11: 30 Rowland Watkins commented:
Ah, I see Blogxter can handle URLs!