Sun announces IPlanet support for WSDL.

Does this interop? I don't see how they can know this interops if they don't come to the SOAP Builders interop-a-thons. Maybe they are using someone else SOAP and WSDL engine? Anyone know?

Today I am going to discuss something non-technical. Stop reading now if you don't care to hear my politics (and just mine). But, I have to say something.

What is wrong with the middle east? I don't get it. I admit it: I just don't get it. I understand that there are many people who just want to do what's right. But there is an intolerable number who don't seem to have anything but selfish desires guiding their actions. This includes political leadership in Israel, Palestine, and the US.

Here's what needs to happen, IMO:

1. Bush needs to take a lesson from Roosevelt, Truman, and Marshall: our neighbors plight is ours. We have strength that is unimaginable. We need to start using it. In other words, deploy troops to Palestine. Take the U.N. with us. It's a tough decision. But do it. The what the leader of the free world does. He makes the tough decisions. The situation has shown clearly that the leaving those two countries to their own devices doesn't work.
   
2. Force Israeli troops to leave Palestine. This won't require force. But back up the request with it.
   
3. Arrest the members of Hamas and every other terrorist group in Palestine. Bring them to camp x-ray, or somewhere similar.
   
4. Recognize the Palestinian state. Truman recognized Israel. You should recognize Palestine.
   
5. Invest in Palestine. Build up a democratic state. Palestine has produced some of the most brilliant minds of the past 1000 years.
   
6. Stay.
   

I reserve the right to completely change my mind about this course of action. But, frankly, I don't anything else that will work. I'm tired of people dying.

Blogging is hard work. I've been amiss with my blog lately. One problem is that I can't get it to work from inside of work. The corporate proxies seem to be messing something up somewhere with blogger.com such that I can only blog from home. ;-(

Anyways, last weeks DevCon was rockin' fun! I enjoyed it tons, and am looking forward to the next one. I'll be posting my code from my talks this week. Be on the lookout.

Yowzer! I've been busy. No posts in three weeks. Sorry for the long wait. Lot's o' work at Microsoft.

For now, I'm off to the Web Services DevCon in Portland, OR. I'll post my slides and code here, along with impressions when I get back.

Some interesting and recent WSDL articles:

• Building Industry Standard WSDLs.


• Building Industry Web services from Industry Standard WSDLs


• Alex on Wrapped vs Bare in WSDLs document/literal style.


• Draft: Web Service Description Requirements from the W3C working group.


• Tim and Martin's latest endpoints: SOAP Encodings, WSDL, and XML Schema Types

WSDL is a powerful beast. Not everyone loves it yet. But I believe in time, everyone will see how powerful it can be.

Who is Dave Seidel, and what does he do for MindReef?

Infoworld has a list of it's innovators of the year.

You know what's the first thing I noticed? Everone on this page, with the single exception of the Google guys, are in their 40's. (OK, one other guy is 38.) I'm trying to draw a conclusion from this. Is it because you aren't in a position (usually) to innovate until your 40's? Or is it because you don't get recognized for your innovations until then? Something else? Any ideas?

Disclosure: I'm 25. I feel like I innovate all the time. Even more so, I know lot's of other people in their 20's who are innovating much more than I.

Remember when I said WSDL is love? Last night, after the WSDL interop event, I went to dinner with people from IBM, Microsoft, IONA, CapeClear, and Ximian. And of course, Simon and Duncan as well.

Web services is about interop. This week we got farther with interop. It was great. All the companies listed above, plus Oracle, BEA, MindReef, Altova, and Macromedia. And even more who couldn't make it in person.