A familiar face graces today's Oz IT section

[JP Howard]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:05:07 +1100, "Ian Holsman" <lists at holsman.net>
said:
> peter renshaw wrote:
> > 
> >>> this would make a good talk.
> >>
> >> I'd be happy to, if people are interested. It's an interesting API - a
> >> secure, stateful protocol using SOAP. It's somewhat hardcore to describe
> >> what's "behind-the-scenes" though; and there's not much to say about how
> >> to use it (it's so easy!)
> >>
> > Yes but a  demo (simple) with code doing something,  speaks volumes.
> > 
> >> If people are interested in some hard-core web services stuff, it could
> >> be an interesting topic.
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing how he did it, and what kind of problems he 
> had along the way, (like interoperability with clients, and scalaing
> issues)

Sure. How about then a talk like:
- What is SOAP
- Consuming SOAP
  - Amazon
  - Google
  - FastMail
- Secure and session-oriented SOAP
  - FastMail API guts
- SOAP Interop