Sensible stuff on looselycoupled.com about the state of play/challenges ahead for web services orchestration. We ain't done with the plumbing by a long way and (whisper) applications will not magically be able to take advantage of the new model. Splitting an app into its component services and exposing the individual services is much easier said than done. Sprinkling angle brackets (XML) around won't make the componentization magically happen.

XML Ireland mailing list has moved to avoid a growing spam problem on the previous host. New location is http://listserv.heanet.ie/xmlireland.html. Thanks to Peter Flynn for setting this up.

An interesting portal-ish site for academic-ish stuff on electronic publishing : http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pep.nsf

Now is the time to start thinking about visiting beautiful Budapest for WWW2003

More to read - another orchestration, orchestrating, orchestrator meta-architecture thingy!. They are coming thick and fast at the moment.

More fuel to the process choeorgraphy fire. WFMC and BMPI get together. This and BPEL4WS (sic?) seem to be forming
the binary star system we will be gazing at for a while.

I've always liked Adobe Framemaker but only the most enhusiastic are going to brave a 313.5 mb download to try it out. Surely some mistake?

Getting this blog going with blogger.com has proven to be quite straightforward. I'm impressed!