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Sun commits to open source Java eventually
At Java One this week Sun said that open sourcing Java is no longer a question of whether, but how. This marks a different tone from previous years, perhaps the Apache Harmony project is succeeding in slowly turning Sun away into a different direction. Community reaction to the news has been mixed.
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SOA Meets Web 2.0 at SOA Executive Forum
InfoWorld is holding an SOA Executive today at which an expert panel discussed Web 2.0 in the context of SOA, how businesses can develop composite apps outside the firewall using technologies typically considered Web 2.0.
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InfoQ Day: See the top 8 sessions Wednesday in SanFrancisco
If you're in SanFrancisco then you're invited to InfoQ Day on Wednesday. We have rented out the Thirsty Bear restaurant where we will host 8 presentations by some of the best speakers also attending Java One. The event is free to the public all day, and refreshments will be served. You're invited!
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on SOA in Practice
In an interview conducted by Jim Gray, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels provides background information on Amazon.com's service-oriented technology platform.
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1st Draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures Released
The W3C has published a first public working draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures, a set of data types, structures and schema patterns to increase Web services interoperability.
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WS-Addressing Becomes a W3C Recommendation
The WS-Addressing core and WS-Addressing SOAP binding specifications have reached full Recommendation status at W3C. WS-Addressing describes how to encode addressing information independently from the underlying transport protocol, enabling asynchronous communication across synchronous protocols such as HTTP.
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Article: Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability
.NET and Java interop can be made really simple using a REST documentcentric approach. This article compares a REST and SOAP approach to interop as well as the advantages of using HTTP POST vs. GET for REST invocations.
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Article: A History of Extended Transactions
ACID transactions don't work for long-lived use cases. This article documents historic approaches taken in the CORBA and J2EE communities toward extended transactions, how SOA is a more natural fit, and why WS-TX & WS-CAF may finally hold the answer.