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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Monday, 24 June 2002

54 hours until my sister moves Philadelphia - getting sad. 11:33:45 PM  comment []      Saturdays rant. After writing Saturdays rant I found this excellent piece by Jon Udell that describes the loose versus tight coupling issues with Web Services far better than I did. So I think that my rant was more about tightly coupled web services being not much better than CORBA with HTTP tunnelling. [james strachan's musings] Wow - a good read and something that I was looking for. We're actually adding a full SOAP interface layer to JIRA - for a number of reasons. Not least of which is that it enables us to write extra GUIs besides the traditional web interface (demo). For example I'm messing around with demonstration IDEA plugins which interact with JIRA via SOAP. Very sexy stuff. However the question I have (or what I'm looking for) is how to manage prolonged conversations (for want of a better term?) using SOAP? I can't seem to find any articles on it. Do I send username/password with each call? Generate an authtoken with a special login() call which must come first? Use http-auth? Am I making a big deal out of nothing? MSDN seems to have the best information so far. 11:30:09 PM  comment []      O'Reilly Network: Improving the Outlook for Entourage : For many this is the only reason they can't move to OSX - Outlook. Finally someone is doing something about it. 12:55:48 PM  comment []