Joseph Cooney gave a presentation on WSE the other night at the local user group. The talk was great, Joseph did well and I hadn't looked into WSE myself. In fact it was so good that it gave me the wish to go play with WSE (that's how you rate a tech talk isn't it? How much it generates an urge to waste time looking into technology you probably don't need to.)

Anyway, one thing it brought up (and the question Joseph refers to in his blog) is whether WSE (and the upcoming Indigo) have any equivalent to Remoting's Client Activated Objects. This is particularly interesting to me since my PhD relies on CAOs to distribute work on a P2P network network using the (not so) friendly Remoting infrastructure.

Now I haven't looked into the WS-* specs much, but I tend to find if I choose a random word and prepend WS- to it I generally find a valid specification. I was wondering whether something like WS-Conversation would fill in for CAOs. Basically we need something that will maintain some state (sorry Mr Greg "Haskell" Neverov) through a series of messages. Now's the time for somebody to jump in and tell me that WS-Conversation exists (or at least exists under a different name) and would fit the bill here.

PS: I'm thinking of starting a thing where I have to include a link to a Jazz CD in every blog post. I think it's the web equivalent of subliminal messages.