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Heresies and Dogmas in Software Development

Topics
Strange Loop 2011,
Design Pattern,
REST,
Strange Loop,
Patterns,
Object Oriented Design,
Design,
Enterprise Architecture,
Conferences,
Architecture,
CORBA,
ORM

Dean Wampler discusses the merits of several controversial issues: Goto, Design before Code, Design Patterns, Corba vs. REST, Object Middleware and ORMs, and Identifiers with Spaces.

News about CORBA

Google Introduces Binary Encoding Format: Protocol Buffers

Topics
XML Schema,
XML,
Ruby,
Java,
Markup Languages,
Dynamic Languages,
Web Services,
Languages,
SOA,
.NET,
Google,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability,
Programming,
Distributed Programming,
Enterprise Architecture,
CORBA,
Companies

Google caused a stir by releasing Protocol Buffers, a binary serialization format. We take a look at what exactly Protocol Buffers are and what alternatives are available in ASN.1 or Facebook's Thrift.

SOA Coverage on Software Engineering Radio

Topics
Amazon,
IaaS,
Companies,
SOA,
Cloud Computing,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
IONA,
Web services,
CORBA,
Podcasts

Software Engineering Radio, a podcast for professional developers, has an extensive coverage of SOA, including interviews with Werner Vogels, Steve Vinoski, Gregor Hohpe, and Michael Stal.

The Rise and Fall of CORBA

Topics
SOA,
Enterprise Architecture,
CORBA,
Architecture,
Standardization

CORBA guru Michi Henning analyzes the reasons for CORBA's (perceived or real) failure and puts blame on the standardization process.

Articles about CORBA

Cloud Computing Realigns Role of Service Oriented Architecture

Topics
SOA Platforms,
SOA,
Cloud Adoption,
PaaS,
IaaS,
Enterprise Architecture,
CORBA,
Architecture,
SaaS,
Cloud Computing

From its inception Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been a source of dissension among enterprise, solution and application architects. Now cloud computing is changing the conversation.

Communication Flexibility Using Bindings

Topics
JMS,
Java EE,
Java,
SOA,
REST,
Languages,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
Apache Tuscany,
Design,
Programming,
RMI,
CORBA

In this article, we will look at an important feature of SCA - its support for a wide variety of communication protocols and how to use SCA bindings on services and references to decouple your business code from communication protocols. Finally we'll take a look at the SCA domain to see how bindings operate in and outside the domain.

Presentations about CORBA

RPC and its Offspring: Convenient, Yet Fundamentally Flawed

Topics
SOAP,
Messaging,
Web Services,
Erlang,
SOA,
Functional Programming,
REST,
Programming,
Architecture,
Reliability,
CORBA,
Enterprise Architecture,
Distributed Programming,
WS-Star,
RMI

In this presentation from QCon London 2009, Steve Vinoski discusses what RPC means, the origin and history of RPC, RFC 707, the origins of Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), the growth of the Internet, standardization, distributed objects, CORBA, DCOM, Java, SOAP, WS-*, the fundamental flaws in RPC, REST properties and constraints, REST vs RPC philosophy, Erlang reliability and concurrency.

Interviews about CORBA

ECMAScript 5, Caja and Retrofitting Security, with Mark S. Miller

Topics
HTML 5,
HTML5,
Rich Internet Apps,
Javascript,
HTML,
Web Development,
Dynamic Languages,
Markup Languages,
QCon San Francisco 2010,
Languages,
QCon,
Programming,
Architecture,
Security,
Conferences,
CORBA,
EcmaScript 5,
Distributed Programming,
Scheme,
Caja

Mark S. Miller talks about the security considerations of JavaScript and how they are dealt with in ECMAScript 5 and the Caja project. He also mentions issues that have to do with HTML5 and compares the security characteristics of other languages like Java and Scheme.

Stefan Tilkov Talks REST, Web Services and More

Topics
JAX-RS,
SOAP,
Messaging,
BPEL,
Java EE,
OAuth,
WSDL,
OpenID,
Web Services,
Java,
Business Process Management,
Authorization,
SOA,
REST,
Business,
Identity Management,
Languages,
QCon,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
Programming,
Security,
WADL,
AtomPub,
CORBA,
RMI,
Conferences,
QCon London 2010,
Restfulie,
Atom

Stefan Tilkov discusses REST (Representational State Transfer) and RESTful web services based upon work he has done for clients of his consultancy. Stefan talks about the shortcomings of the WS-* specs and says he sees little need for WS-* web services any more. Stefan also talks about how web development frameworks are beginning to map to the RESTful model, and the concept of REST and security.

CORBA Guru Steve Vinoski on REST, Web Services, and Erlang

Topics
WS Standards,
WSDL,
Web Services,
Erlang,
REST,
SOA,
Languages,
Functional Programming,
Architecture,
CORBA,
Enterprise Architecture,
Programming

In this interview, recorded at QCon San Francisco 2007, CORBA Guru Steve Vinoski talks to Stefan Tilkov about his appreciation for REST, occasions when he would still use CORBA and the role of description languages for distributed systems. Other topics covered include the benefits of knowing many programming languages, and the usefulness of of Erlang to build distributed systems.

Tim Bray on Rails, REST, XML, Java, and More

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
SOAP,
JRuby,
Ruby,
WS Standards,
Messaging,
JVM Languages,
Java,
Dynamic Languages,
Web Services,
SOA,
Languages,
TDD,
Programming,
Architecture,
WS-Star,
Enterprise Architecture,
Atom,
Sun Microsystems,
CORBA,
XML,
Testing,
Buzzwords,
Trends

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.