During the run of the play was the scheduled Face-To-Face for the WSDL binding interop. In the end it was a virtual face-to-face meaning that we each had the day blocked out to do the work (the 2 days off the play mentioned above) but were doing it remotely. In order to test the wsaw:Anonymous=prohibited part of the specification I needed a public endpoint which the Sun endpoint could connect to. That’s not possible at work because of the firewall but is possible at home because I control the firewall. So I planned to do it from home. Disaster struck 20 mins before the kick-off call when my boradband gave up the ghost. According to the company it was being ‘upgraded’. I headed into work (more happiness that I now have a car) and we got some work done the first day (well night for me ‘cos we were working in PST for Arun). The second day the broadband was still broken so I got an endpoint installed on the vrtual server I used to have illsley.org on and now don’t use much. It was a little flakey (to say the least) but we got lots of work done in the forst 4 hours… right up until there was a (scheduled but I wasn’t expecting) network outage at work. I can only thank Arun for not assuming I was being terribly rude as I had no way of getting in touch to explain what had happened.
We’ve done a lot more work on the interop. since and it’s pretty interesting. There’s a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while about spec development that I’ll try to do soon. The reason? We’ve found problems with the spec just trying to formulate the tests!
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