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Service-Oriented Development with Consumer-Driven Contracts

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SOA
Topics
Governance,
Design

In this article, Ian Robinson discusses how "consumer-driven contracts", in the form of "stories for services" and unit tests exchanged between service development streams, can strengthen the service-oriented development lifecycle. In contrast to contracts defined from the POV of the provider, consumer-driven contracts result from combining the demands of all known service consumers.

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Google Introduces Binary Encoding Format: Protocol Buffers

Community
Java,
Architecture,
.NET,
Ruby,
SOA
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Web Services

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.

The Semantic Web and Ontological Technologies Continue to Expand

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Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Semantic Web,
Enterprise Architecture

Ontologies and Ontological management have become more popular as enterprise architecture has gained ground in organizations. As tool support has become available and the semantic and ontological concepts are being understood, more players, like the UMBEL project, the AKSW group, and consultant Dan McCreary have come to the table with contributions.

Post-VS 2008-Technology: LINQ to XSD and LINQ to Stored XML

Community
.NET
Topics
.NET Framework

Today, Shyam Pather, Principal Development Lead on the Data Programmability Team at Microsoft, is giving a presentation on LINQ to XML: Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight, and Beyond at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston. He talks about the current and future technologies surrounding LINQ to XML.

7 Degrees of SOA Coupling

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SOA
Topics

In a recent posting, ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer tackles the belief that a system is either loosely-coupled, or it isn’t. Although the importance of loose-coupling has been known for some time, the dialogue around this post has garnered some interesting discussion.

Data Services in SOA: Issues and Possible Solutions

Community
SOA
Topics
REST - DO NOT USE,
Web Services

Data Services are increasingly generating interest in Service Oriented Architectures. David Webber wrote an article detailing some of the difficulties to define contracts for AWS and some of the solutions using the Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM).

Should you be using RELAX-NG?

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Architecture
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Technology

10 reasons to consider using RELAX-NG in place of W3C XML Schemas as your XML schema language.

XML Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2008

Community
.NET
Topics
Announcements

The XML Schema Designer is a graphical tool for working with XML Schemas (XSD). It is integrated with Visual Studio 2008 and the XML Editor.

W3C Publishes an Update to Guide to Versioning XML Schema 1.1

Community
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
XML Databinding

The W3C published last month an update to its "Guide to Versioning XML Languages Using new XML Schema 1.1 features" which details the new features of XML Schema 1.1 in the context of schema versioning. They represent real advances for web service practitioners and should become part of your guidelines and best practices when the W3C releases XML Schema 1.1.