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Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA"

Presented by Jim Webber on Jan 29, 2008

Community
SOA
Topics
Hype ,
ESB
Tags
Microsoft ,
Qcon London 2007 ,
SOAP ,
WCF ,
Web services ,
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Summary
In one of the most entertaining presentations on the topic ever, Dr. Jim Webber debunks myths about the mainstream ESB concept and explains how a lightweight approach can yield real benefits without giving in to vendor pressure. Jim claims that an ESB often ends up being just a thin veneer on an existing mess, and how an approach that doesn't put intelligence into the network is superior.

Bio
Dr. Jim Webber is the SOA Practice lead for ThoughtWorks, where he works on Web Services-based systems for clients worldwide. He has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide."

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youtube by Jeremy Barth Posted Jan 30, 2008 11:05 AM
Re: youtube by Dong Liu Posted Jan 30, 2008 11:41 AM
Re: youtube by Stefan Tilkov Posted Jan 30, 2008 12:10 PM
Re: youtube by Niels Tindbæk Posted Feb 8, 2008 11:53 PM
Re: youtube by Axel Gross Posted Jan 30, 2008 1:30 PM
Adding features to a service without changing it by Darrell Russell Posted Jan 31, 2008 8:02 AM
Technical Details by Martin Probst Posted Jan 31, 2008 11:56 AM
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    youtube

    Jan 30, 2008 11:05 AM by Jeremy Barth

    Not a big deal, but my posse and I aren't able to watch this video at work. If you threw it on youtube we'd be able to.

    Jeremy

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    Re: youtube

    Jan 30, 2008 11:41 AM by Dong Liu

    FireFox cannot connect, but controls are there. IE can play, but no controls.

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    Re: youtube

    Jan 30, 2008 12:10 PM by Stefan Tilkov

    We hear you loud and clear. A better solution for video streaming is coming to InfoQ Real. Soon. Now. Promised.

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    Re: youtube

    Jan 30, 2008 1:30 PM by Axel Gross

    works fine in epiphany
    great presentation btw :)

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    Adding features to a service without changing it

    Jan 31, 2008 8:02 AM by Darrell Russell

    Great presentation, very thoughtful.

    I have a question though. I'm trying to think through one of the advantages I think you can get with an ESB architecture. If all messages go via an ESB then features such as security, logging, routing, transformations can be:
    1. Managed centrally .. so no need for individual services to implement these features.
    2. New features, and updates to old features, can be managed seperately from the services themselves.

    This strikes me as positive things becuase it means that different aspects of services can be managed/deployed/changed seperately.

    Maybe the features I'm talking about are just technical services? You very, very briefly touched upon technical services in your presentation.

    Any thoughts? Or should I just buy the book?

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    Technical Details

    Jan 31, 2008 11:56 AM by Martin Probst

    Great presentation, very charismatic guy.

    Though I'm a bit worried that he goes over the technical issues with SOAP and WS-* in general, and federated transactions in particular, a bit too quick.

    In my experience, most of WS-* simply doesn't work. That's not so bad, as most of it doesn't have any value to me, too, but still ;-).

    Distributed transactions in particular have been dismissed by many experts that have worked on the topic for ages. There are highly plausible arguments that they might never work at all.

    There is still a lot of work to be done, and at I'm very sceptical if all the WS-* stuff is actually helping to get stuff done or just an impediment.

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    Re: youtube

    Feb 8, 2008 11:53 PM by Niels Tindbæk

    what about downloading?

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