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  • Book Review: Applied SOA

    Applied SOA is a new book on Service Oriented Architecture written by 4 leading SOA practitioners that aims at making you successful with your SOA implementation. In particular, this book is going to help you tie your SOA initiative with your Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, Core Data and BPM initiatives.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Aug 04, 2008

  • Choosing between Routing and Orchestration in an ESB

    In this article, Adrien Louis and Marc Dutoo discuss the differences and relative merits of using orchestration vs. routing in a typical ESB setup. They discuss various approaches to connecting services, from low level ones like customized routing, to high-level ones using business oriented approaches like workflow and orchestration, and conclude that there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

    Adrien Louis Marc Dutoo
    on Jul 02, 2008

  • ESB Topology Alternatives

    In this article, Adrien Louis discusses the pros and cons of two topology alternatives for ESB-based SOAs: A single ESB for the company vs. a system of "departmental" ESBs that are connected to each other. Adrien describes how the alternatives affect issues such as administration, business monitoring, governance, reliability, and orchestration.

    Adrien Louis
    on May 23, 2008

  • Spectacular Scalability with Smart Service Contracts

    Scalability isn't the Boolean value stateless design tends to assume. Udi’s team averts a second failure using service contracts to address multiple dimensions of scale.

    Udi Dahan
    on Apr 10, 2008

  • Interview: Jim Marino and Meeraj Kunnumpurath on SCA and Fabric3

    BEA has released a Technology Preview of SCA support in WebLogic 10.3 based on the open source Fabric3 runtime. InfoQ spoke with Jim Marino, Director of Technology at BEA Systems and Meeraj Kunnumpurath, Lead Technologist at VocaLink. We talked about their views on SOA and SCA, what was VocaLink's approach to adopt SCA and some of the key benefits of the technology.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Apr 07, 2008

  • Interview: Dino Chiesa on Microsoft's SOA strategy

    Microsoft has intensified its marketing efforts on SOA with the launch of a new web site, a series of webinars, an ebook, “SOA in the Real World” and the “SOA & Business Process Conference 2007”. In the next couple of months Microsoft will also be releasing .Net 3.5 and an ESB Guidance. InfoQ talked to Dino Chiesa, Director of Marketing for .Net to better understand Microsoft's SOA strategy.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Sep 04, 2007

  • Interview: Ricco Deutscher on "SOPERA"

    Deutsche Post World Net, one of the world's largest logistics companies (and owner of DHL) has created a “SOA platform”, called “SOPERA”, which aims to be a full-featured SOA environment. Today, SOPERA announced it will contribute its platform to the Eclipse Foundation. InfoQ had a chance to talk to Ricco Deutscher, Managing Director of the newly founded company behind the platform.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on May 15, 2007
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    ESB Alternative - Article removed at the author's request

    This article was removed from InfoQ at the author's request.

    InfoQ Team
    on Nov 08, 2006
  • Architecture & Design

    Using SEDA to Ensure Service Availability

    A new strategy for incorporating event driven architecture for scalability and availability of services in the context of SOA. These strategies are based on queuing research pioneered for the use of highly abailable and scalable services, initially in the Web context, but moving into the SOA and Web services context. Actual implementation is described in the context of Mule.

    Rune Schumann Rune Peter Bjornstad
    on Oct 11, 2006

  • ESB Roundup Part two: ESB Use Cases

    This is the second part of InfoQ's ESB series, an exploration of Enterprise Service Bus, or ESB technologies. The focus is use cases required by companies deploying this technology, such as protocol bridging, security intermediation and service virtualization. The article references analyst commentary, survey research results and comments on part one of the ESB roundup.

    Miko Matsumura
    on Jul 12, 2006

  • ESB Roundup Part One: Defining the ESB

    A healthy debate has arisen in the SOA community around the Enterprise Service Bus. Is an ESB needed? What is the best definition of an ESB? When should an ESB be deployed? What is its role in SOA? In the first part of a series, InfoQ explores this vital topic.

    Miko Matsumura
    on Jul 05, 2006

  • Secure and Reliable Web Services

    Web Services can become the single standard for all exchange of structured data. After waiting over 5 years, 2 important Web Services specifications have finally been endorsed: WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging. Will these specifications allow the adoption of web services as a standard for all communication within and between organizations?

    Guy Crets
    on Jul 03, 2006
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