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- SOA
- Topics
- Web Frameworks,
- Web Services
In this interview, recorded at QCon SF, Stefan Tilkov talks to noted Web services expert and open source developer Dan Diephouse about the benefits of using the Atom Pub and Atom standards for business applications, pros and cons of using REST, and upcoming features of the Apache CXF web services stack.
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By Dan Diephouse
on Apr 08, 2008,

- Ruby,
- Java,
- SOA
- Topics
- WS Standards,
- Web Services,
- Ruby on Rails,
- Dynamic Languages
InfoQ Ruby editor Obie Fernandez interviews Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML and current Director of Web Technologies for Sun Microsystems. We cover varied topics such as his opinions about Ruby and Rails, the impact of dynamic languages on web development, static versus dynamic typing, Sun's support of the JRuby project, Atom, and WS-* versus REST approaches to systems integration.
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By Tim Bray, Obie Fernandez, Floyd Marinescu
on Oct 11, 2006,

- SOA
- Topics
- Web 2.0
In this presentation recorded at JAOO, IBM's Rod Smith discusses how technologies such as Wikis are combined with Web services and Atom and RSS feeds to form mashups, enabling the next wave of DIY-IT by combining the flexibility of user-oriented information architecture provided by active content with that of content-in-flight to provide an easy-to-use end-user integration platform.
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By Rodney Smith
on Jun 20, 2007,
News about Atom
- .NET,
- SOA
- Topics
- Interop
Microsoft switches from the Web Structured, Schema’d & Searchable (Web3S) protocol to Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) for services offered by Microsoft's Live Platform on the Web.
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By Hartmut Wilms
on Mar 04, 2008,
- Java,
- SOA
- Topics
- Javascript,
- Web 2.0,
- SOA Platforms,
- Grid Computing,
- Open Source
The Apache Tuscany team announced today the 1.1 release of the Java SCA project which adds a number of features including a JMS binding or improved policy support. It also supports an implementation extension for representing client side Javascript applications as SCA components which makes SCA a viable technology to simplify Ajax style implementations using JSONRPC or Atom bindings for instance.
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By Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Feb 05, 2008,
- Architecture
- Topics
- SaaS,
- EAI,
- Web Services,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Cloud Computing
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) has proven itself as a winner for instant messaging, but could it also be the protocol of choice for service integration in the future?
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By Gavin Terrill
on Jan 28, 2008,
- SOA
- Topics
- Web Services
In contrast to Google, who base their public RESTful services on the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Microsoft has found the need to go down a different route and has introduced Web3S.
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By Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
on Jun 18, 2007,
- .NET,
- SOA
- Topics
- Web Services
Dara Obasanjo writes about the limitations of the Google Data API (Google's implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol with some extensions) as a general purpose protocol and explains why Microsoft will not support or standardize on GData.
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By Hartmut Wilms
on Jun 10, 2007,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Open Source
14 Ruby projects were accepted for the Google Summer of Code bounty program. The projects range from a debugger for Rails, to a project writing an RSpec specification for Ruby, to protocol implementations using EventMachine and Ragel, and more.
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By Werner Schuster
on Apr 17, 2007,