[wsrp] XML 2003 report

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

Both the talk and demo at XML 2003 were
attended by 30-40 people (room capacities were around 50-60). There was
significant interest in what the standard enabled and people were quite
impressed to see the aggregation from 5 Producers working so well this
short a time after the standard was approved. Flipping between the three
pre-release Consumers that BEA, IBM and Oracle made available also helped
make the point that this functionality was implementable and provided the
desired results. 

WSRP was also mentioned favorably by
Jon Udell in his keynote as allowing applications access to presentation
fragments from components that were running in whatever environment was
natural for them. I followed up with Jon and learned he was about to write
a sidebar for a magazine about JSR 168 and WSRP. We had quite a good conversation
about what these standards are and how they inter-relate.

I also had a conversation with Farrukh
and Joe (they have stepped forward to write the ebXML Registry Technical
Note) as they were at XML 2003 to demo ebXML capabilities. They were quite
impressed with the WSRP demo and are definitely energized to get this tech
note going.

Thanks again to all who worked to ensure
the demo was functional in time for this conference!
Rich