Monday, November 04, 2002

GROOVE WEB SERVICES.  Lots of interest brewing in the field around web services and devices.  I built a couple of apps using eVB and SOAP to leverage web services interfaces to Groove tools and Mappoint, and the value of SOAP is really evident.  What might have taken days coding an API or some other interface to Groove, took hours. Jon Udell got a close look at what we are doing in the Groove 2.5/3.0 timeframe and he writes about it in an InfoWorld article called "Extending Groove". "HOW DO YOU PORT 5 million lines of Win32/COM code to the Pocket PC? That was the dilemma that Groove Networks faced when considering how to bring its ultrasecure peer collaboration technology to mobile devices. Jamming 10 pounds of potatoes into a one-pound sack wasn't an option, but lateral thinking yielded a new plan: Don't port; use Web services as integration glue. Thus was born the skunkworks project first dubbed "edge services" and now known as GWS (Groove Web Services)." 2:48:35 PM