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Understanding SOA Governance
Lori MacVittie has written an excellent introductory article to SOA governance, including an overview of relevant standards and the different kinds of product offerings.
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ESB SCA WCF and TLAs
Patrick Leonard, VP of Product Development at Rogue Wave has posted a short commentary on Webservices.org about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its relationship to SOA. Patrick focuses on other specifications and frameworks that can enable "greater realization" of SOA solutions.
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NAG Continuous Integration Monitor Announced
Digital Focus has announced their open source "NAG" continuous integration tool, which monitors the stability of multiple application servers and notifies users of software build failures via audible and visual cues. Ready now for Apache Continuum, and already working to support Cruise Control, Lunt Build, and Ant Hill monitoring, this tool is specifically designed to support Agile teams.
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WS-MetadataExchange 1.1 Published
WS-MetadataExchange, the Web service standard that specifies how information about a service's interface, policy, and other metadata can be retrieved at runtime, has been updated to version 1.1.
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Event Driven Architecture
Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a term promoted by Gartner to describe an evolved state of Enterprise software characterized by real time events. EDA has been associated to its detriment with SOA 2.0, however, there may be technical legitimacy to some of the EDA ideas.
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Sun: A real open source Java community: "That is our Goal"
Sun has committed to open sourcing Java Micro Edition this year, and all of Standard Edition next year. InfoQ spoke to Sun's Bob Brewin, co-CTO of Software to find out the details. InfoQ also spoke to Geir Magnusson, lead on the Apache Harmony open source Java effort to get a community perspective on the news.
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REST vs SOAP Roll Call
Stefan Tilkov (ed note: SOA Editor on InfoQ) posts on his blog lists of proponents of REST style vs the list of those supporting a more WS/SOAP style of SOA. The lists are helpful to those seeking to understand the stylistic differences betweeen these strategies and how to leverage each appropriately.
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InfoQ Article: Web Services Guru Dr. Frank Leymann on SOA
InfoQ recently had the chance to interview Frank Leymann, co-author of many Web services specs and a full professor at the University of Stuttgart.
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Platt on Web 2.0 and SOA
Microsoft Architect Michael Platt describes the challenges and opportunities of combining the SOA and Web 2.0 models.
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REST on Rails: An Enterprise Developer's Overview
Bruce Tate presents an enterprise-level introduction to the use of Representational State Transfer (REST) in the Ruby on Rails framework.
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Could Glassfish become the next major open source appserver?
Sun has been putting a lot of resources into Glassfish, Sun's Java EE 5 open source appserver. But with an open source application server market dominated by JBoss, with ObjectWeb's JonAS and IBM supporting Apache's Geronimo project, just what is the intention and status of Glassfish? InfoQ has been been following the project and talking to the committers over the last few months to catch you up.
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MSDN Architecture Center Launches Vertical Sites
The MSDN Architecture Center has released 3 industry-focused vertical sites, and one devoted to Microsoft Office as a solutions platform: * Financial Services Industry Center * Manufacturing Industry Center * Retail Industry Center * Office System for Architects
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WS-BPEL 2.0 Approaching Public Review
The Web Services Business Process Execution Language Version 2.0 Specification is approaching the public review stage. This is an OASIS specification and governs process execution in SOA.
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Debates flare on the right level of abstraction over ORM and JDBC
A heated debate started a few weeks ago initiated by members of the Hibernate team, arguing that using an abstraction framework on top of an ORM is a bad idea, citing Spring's HibernateTemplate as a specific example. Along the theme of levels of abstraction, Brian McCalister also surveyed various convenience frameworks over JDBC.
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Industry Use of OSGi Continues to Increase
OSGi is specification of a Java-based framework targeted for use by systems that require long running times, dynamic updates, and minimal disruptions to the running environment. The Eclipse Equinox provides one of many available implementations. Numerous server and desktop applications are also starting to make use of OSGi.