Wednesday, October 09, 2002

A Busy Developer's Guide to WSDL 1.1 4:07:36 PM

Interview with Ken Arnold. Excellent on lots of levels: Part I: Perfection and Simplicity -- the myth of "the perfect design" and ways to achieve design simplicity Part II: Taste and Aesthetics -- the role of taste in design and the importance of designing with the user in mind Part III: Designing Distributed Systems -- designing for failure, using transactions and idempotency, and avoiding state Part IV: Sway with JavaSpaces -- loose coupling in JavaSpace-based systems, why fields in entries are public, RPCs to nowhere, and building systems that sway with failure Part V: JavaSpaces: Data, Decoupling, and Iteration -- the data-driven nature of JavaSpaces, how JavaSpaces facilitates decoupling, and why iteration isn't supported in the JavaSpace interface ...from codaland. 1:32:27 PM

Some great writing here - and yeah, I heard about it on TAL. 12:13:44 PM