Thursday, October 17, 2002

Type Safety in a Loosely Coupled World. In which I'm inspired by Tim Ewald and come to realize that runtime type checking is a very good thing. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] Sam amplifies on this showing differences between languages and pointing to his excellent essay Dealing with Diversity. "Until recently, most programming activities were mono-cultures focused around a language centric base.  A much more successful model is emerging.  One in which the service provider has an opportunity to suggest what data types it would prefer.  This gives the intended consumer an opportunity to adapt if it so chooses.  Ultimately the service provider will decide whether or not it can process the request as sent." 2:26:28 PM

Scott Seely, who gave an interesting talk, which may be the first time a Microsoft employee showed Apache Axis alongside .NET, has written a new MSDN article on a timely subject Understanding WS-Security. Of course, the hardest working man in the business has written on this as well as supplyinmg a toolkit. 11:30:34 AM