Sunday, August 03, 2003

Adam Bosworth's web log started Adam Bosworth, Chief Architect at BEA Systems and former Web Services guru at Microsoft has started a blog to address the issues around web services.  Here is a sample from his start-up blog: Ruminations. I've been planning to start a weblog for quite some time but, unsually for me, I've suffered from writers block at the thought that this would be so public. Well it is time to tough it out. I've been thinking about the impact of the world slowly but surely supporting web services. Most people think of this in terms of integration of information, but I think the impact is going to be great. We are going to see the return of a form of rich client. People went to the web in droves because they needed open access to information anyway and because it provided zero install which was a huge improvement on windows. Serendipitous benefits turned out to be customization and easier development of interface. Costs, however, were the requirement to be online to have access to information and an inability to manage the information your way. If your broker doesn't let you sort your stocks by PE, then you can't do it. Web services holds the potential to change all this and the rapid rise of mobile computing and occasionally connected laptops is going to help drive the changes. The world is now holding its breath for a... [Adam Bosworth's Weblog] 10:08:34 PM    comment []

New resources for interoperability policy and technology The Public Safety Wireless Network (PSWN) program which is jointly funded by the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice recently rolled out an overhauled interactive web site.   The focus of this site is on the national strategy for interoperability among disparate communications systems. It contains articles and links covering strategy, policies, and technical options.  This is an excellent contribution to this field. 9:29:14 PM    comment []

EMS Response measures flawed USA Today has published an extensive series of articles on EMS Reponse measurements in an effort to rank cities in accordance with the lives saved rather than travel times to the scene.  The articles expose flawed measurements of response time as not being helpful in evaluating service delivered.  The suggestion implied by the articles is that CAD or RMS systems should be capturing additional status times that have to do with when patient care was initiated vs. when the call was received rather than just travel time.  This is an important notion in evaluating response speeds that goes beyond the simple measures of travel time. 9:22:00 PM    comment []

New standards make portals interoperable Portal standards take flight. As two key specifications approach final status, portal vendors are stitching in standards-compliant APIs for delivering content and applications into the portal framework. [InfoWorld: Top News].  One of the problems with using portals as a single point of entry into an integrated justice information system or any system is the proprietary nature of creating a "portlet" or widget or whatever the portal maker calls it to set up an entry point to an applications or web service.  These new standards will make it easier to deal with portals from different environments. 8:57:56 PM    comment []

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