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IBM's Smart SOA Vision Explained at Impact
At IBM's Impact event this week, IBM execs re-affirmed the view that the main innovation presented by SOA is business/IT alignment. They presented a business-process centric view of how SOA is an enabler for enterprises to change (agility), as well as their view of Smart SOA, a set of principles / maturity model for SOA based on numerous customer SOA deployments.
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Flex and the Open Web
Kevin Dangoor of SitePen recently blogged about Flash, Silverlight and the Open Web. He offers his defense for open standards as the best future for the web. Adobe's Ryan Stewart, a Flex evangelist, responds.
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Mozilla Prism 0.9 Released
Mozilla Prism 0.9 was released last month. Prism is a Single Site Browser (SSB), which aims to move applications from the browser to the desktop, while still using browser based technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, etc).
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Interview: Dan Diephouse on Atom, AtomPub, REST and Web Services
In a new interview, recorded at QCon San Francisco, Stefan Tilkov talks to noted Web services expert and open source developer Dan Diephouse about the benefits of using the Atom Pub and Atom standards for business applications, pros and cons of using REST, and upcoming features of the Apache CXF web services stack.
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Cool URIs in a RESTful World
What might this be: "envisioned as a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with a minimum of integration costs"? Is this about REST? Nope. According to SWEO, it is about the Semantic Web. Cool URIs will help making this way. So it might be worth looking whether RESTful SOA URIs can also be "cool".
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Book Spotlight: Essential Windows Communication Foundation
Newly published to coincide with the release of the .NET Framework 3.5, Essential Windows Communication Foundation by Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, and Chris Bowen. InfoQ communicated with the authors.
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Hypertable Lead Discusses Hadoop and Distributed Databases
Two open source projects related to Hadoop, HBase and Hypertable, provide Big Table inspired scalable database implementations. InfoQ sat down with Doug Judd, Principal Search Architect at Zvents, Inc. and Hypertable project founder, to discuss its implementation.
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NHibernate 2.0 Offers Many New Features
NHibernate 2.0 Alpha has been released this week. The current 2.0 release is the first step to the feature set of Hibernate 3.2.6, many classes have been completely rewritten and lots of features have been added.
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Strengthening the Alliance Between Java EE and SCA
The 0.9 draft of the SCA Java EE Integration specification, just published by the Open SOA collaboration, defines the integration of SCA and Java EE within the context of a Java EE application, the use of Java EE components as service component implementations, and the deployment of Java EE archives either within or as SCA contributions.
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Microsoft Research Releases Singularity RDK
On March 4th, the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) was released as an open source project on CodePlex. The RDK is based on the Singularity Project from Microsoft Research by Galen Hunt, Jim Larus and others. The Project web site said that Singularity itself is primarily about "the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools."
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C# and VB .NET Libraries to Google, YouTube, Facebook, and other Web 2.0 APIs
In a recent post on his blog, Scott Hanselman has compiled a list of .NET libraries useful to interface with some of the Web 2.0 APIs that have proliferated all over the web.
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Debate: Agile Transition Success Rates, Help or Harm?
Many of the Agile community have chimed in on a recent popular discussion regarding success rates of Agile transitions. Responding to Niraj Khanna's question on the subject, Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, Alistair Cockburn, Chet Hendrickson, and many more debate the value and risk of establishing such statistics.
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Sun's Silence on JSR 277 Leaves Many Questions from OSGi Supporters and Few Answers
The expert group behind JSR 277 has been largely quiet despite questions from the community at large on its status and possible compatibility with OSGi. In recent weeks calls for information and criticism have become louder.
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SpringSource Enterprise Delivers Enhanced Spring Support and Monitoring Capabilities
Today SpringSource announced the availability of SpringSource Enterprise, which includes a certified and indemnified version of the popular Spring software stack for enterprise Java development as well as production and development capabilities and support.
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Generational SOA
SOA has often been described as a longer term development pattern than the hype surrounding it would often imply. However, many authors have frequently pointed out where some or all of the practices involved within SOA have been used over the past few decades. Kirstan Vandersluis goes further and discusses specific generations of service-oriented development that have lead to today's systems.