Bake-off proposal (was Re: [CNET] Web services -- a 2001 thing?)

[Gregory Alan Bolcer]

Dave Winer wrote:
> 
> OK, I'll work with The Hong Brothers to get my canonical SOAP app on their
> site. Dave
> 

Like hell. You need a fair 3rd party refereeing.   We'll do the best
of 3 out of 5. 

1) Write an app that copies a file from one directory to another. 
2) Write an app that creates a folder/collection and sets the owner of 
   that folder/collection to "Jimmy".
3) Write an app that publishes a document from any widely used (over 1 million) commercial
   tool to a remote server directly from the tool using a strong
   authentication method. 
4) Write an app that opens up a document from any remote server using any strong authentication
   method of your choice in any widely used commercial tool (over 1 million)
   and save it back to that server after some time spent editing without having anyone
   else overwrite any of your changes. 
5) Write an app that searches all the documents on a server spread across
   a couple of dozen directories and returns a listing of all the ones authored
   by "Jimmy".  

Greg