Re: [DotGNU]WOS

[Tim Terlegård]

> > I've been reading about UDDI (www.uddi.org),
>
> Hm... it says on their website "UDDI is currently being guided
> by a group of industry leaders that are spearheading the early
> creation and design efforts."  Given that Microsoft is one of
> those "industry leaders" that are "guiding" UDDI, what makes you
> think that UDDI would play fair with us?

There are implementations of UDDI, one is jUDDI (www.juddi.org). Probably 
there are more, but I haven't looked. Personally I can't see why this 
specification wouldn't stay open. It's possible that MS uses UDDI for .Net, 
but I don't think MS will try anything with UDDI. The standard is too big and 
important for that. There are over 200 companies in the UDDI community. But 
of course, those are just my personal believes...

> > WDSL (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdland)
>
> This URL doesn't work.

How about this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl

> > and SOAP. That combination looks cool, maybe that would be
> > interesting for the distribution architecture/implementation
> > of DotGNU?
>
> Please explain... what problems does this solve?

UDDI/WDSL is a lookup service, like Jini. Businesses and services registers 
themselves and then you can search for the service you want and use it, like 
the Yellow Pages I guess. This just solves a fraction of what DotGNU, but I 
thought it looked nice. Are there any other plans for lookup services?

/ Tim