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Article: Spectacular Scalability with Smart Service Contracts
Udi Dahan describes an experience implementing a new order system in which large size message passing was affecting the scalability and even bringing down servers in the system. The article describes how they diagnosed the problem and their solution, by "changing our service contracts and introducing stateful interactions we were able to manage the performance critical state of the system."
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Don't Let Consumers and Service Providers Communicate Directly
Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink discusses why most integration-developers aren't "doing" SOA and why this is bad for Service Oriented Architecture. He discusses the problem and illustrates some straightforward approaches to alleviate it, which don't always require significant investments in new infrastructure.
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OSS, SOA and Web 2.0 in the e-Commerce sector
People have thought of establishing a relationship between SOA and Web 2.0 for quite some time yet these two cultures are generally failing to cross-pollinate. InfoQ spoke with Marc Osofsky and Dave Gynn from Optaros, a consulting company which is delivering solutions using Open Source, SOA and Web 2.0. We discussed enterprise-readyness, component selection and rapid delivery methodology.
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Presentation: Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA"
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.
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Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology
Sun Microsystems started a tour in the US to present a comprehensive view of the technologies and approaches it recommends to build Service-Oriented-Architectures with Java Technology.
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InfoQ Minibook: Composite Software Construction
In a new InfoQ minibook, InfoQ SOA Editor and SOA Enterprise Architect Jean-Jacques Dubray describes the state of the art and emerging new approaches in building "Composite Software", solutions created by assembling existing services. The book is available as an InfoQ Minibook, i.e. free of charge in PDF format for InfoQ users. A printed version is available too.
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Presentations of the BeJUG SOA Conference available on parleys.com
The videos of three talks at the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) Enterprise SOA'07 Conference have been published on parleys.com.
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IBM announces a broad set of new product releases, services offerings and the SOA Sandbox
IBM announced a wide update to its SOA product line and services offerings. In addition, it published a large collection of white papers, presentations and labs as part of the SOA Sandbox.
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What does the term ESB actually mean?
In his blog, Nick Allen, program manager in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, went on to collect several definitions and clarify Microsoft's position on the question.
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NServiceBus - Makes Building Enterprise .NET Systems Easier
NServiceBus is an open source communications framework that will help guide developers who are trying to build enterprise .NET systems, without falling into many of the typical pitfalls. It provides scalability critical features like publish/subscribe support, integrated long-running workflow and deep extensibility.
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Interview: Dino Chiesa on Microsoft's SOA Strategy
InfoQ talked to Dino Chiesa, Director of Marketing for .Net in the Connected Systems Division to better understand what's coming in .Net 3.5 for SOA, Microsoft's SOA strategy and how customers were using WCF.
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ESB-Oriented Architectures considered harmful
Bobby Woolf questions, with humor, the use of an ESB-Oriented Architecture approach when building a Service Oriented Architecture. This is an age old question that's worth revisiting in the light of the completion of WS-* standard stack.
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Microsoft announces the CTP3 of the ESB Guidance
Microsoft is releasing a new drop of its ESB Guidance (CTP3). The ESB guidance is a framework that runs on top of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and leverages WCF to provide ESB functionality (routing, transformation, validation,...).
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SAP NetWeaver Process Integration v7.1: a new architecture and enhanced SOA capabilities
SAP is ramping up for the launch of its latest version of the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration platform. Product Manager Sindhu Gangadharan said SAP NWPI v7.1 will be available next month. In an interview with Paul Read, she details the platform’s new capabilities.
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WSO2 publishes new round of performance metrics for their ESB
WSO2 has recently published a second set of performance metrics for their ESB. It shows that WSO2 ESB outperforms Mule and Apache ServiceMix.