Testing SOA

Towards open services. SOA (service-oriented architecture), we agree, is the way of the future. We'll build loosely coupled Web services now and wire them up into composite systems later. The benefits are clear: scalability, OS and language neutrality, easy integration. But as "later" starts to resolve into a date like 2003, or 2004, it's also becoming clear that SOA raises challenging issues. How, for example, do you monitor, test, and debug a distributed system when only some of its components are under your direct control? [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon Udell: InfoWorld]

Emphasis added. This is an important question but it is not as fundamentally difficult as it first sounds. I'll try to expand on this in the near future.

Positively ID'ed

I, me, mine

Jon Udell has charted the relationships between one's identity, groups and devices in a simple layout that describes many of the challenges of user experience design. Marc Canter adds his riff:

Jon's right.  Whether it be by yourself, or with a group of people, conversing, intercting publishing, communicating, listening, watching, playing - EVERYTHING - all activity first and foremost starts with YOURSELF.  YOUR Identity.

Not to be shrill, but it is all about individual power. Any corporate-defined system becomes confining, like being shut inside a focus group forever.

[RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing]

"To be blunt about it, current drive for digital identity is lead by corporations wishing to herd their customers by tagging them."

Another important source of identity is obviously government. Phil Windley, the former CTO of state of Utah has made this point many times before.

Serializing Java objects to DAML

Serializing Java objects to DAML (Kalixia). Serializing Java objects to DAML (Kalixia) [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF]

Didn't I say there are lots of goodies at Kalixia? ;-)