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Service Firewall Pattern

How can you protect a service against detect malicious incoming messages and prevent information disclosure on outgoing messages? In this sample chapter from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz' in-progress book SOA Patterns, Arnon explains how to use a Service Firewall to intercept incoming and outgoing messages and inspect them in a dedicated software component or hardware.

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
on Jun 18, 2007
Book Excerpt and Review: Groovy in Action

The Groovy language is bringing many of the features that have become popular in Ruby to Java and the JVM. Groovy in Action by Dierk Koenig, Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge and Jon Skeet provides a guided tour to learning the language and places it can be put to use. . InfoQ is excited to present an excerpt of the book of along with a review by Grails team member Jason Rudolph.

Jason Rudolph
on Jun 13, 2007
Unit-Testing XML

There are many occasions where software creates XML output: XML documents are used for data interchange between different applications, web application create (X)HTML output or respond to AJAX requests with XML, and this has to be tested as much as anything else. In this article, Stefan Bodewig explains how to perform those tests with the XMLUnit framework he has co-authored.

Stefan Bodewig
on Jun 11, 2007
Interview: Jezz Santos about Software Factories

InfoQ had a chance to talk to Jezz Santos, a trusted expert advisor for the Web Service Software Factory and the creator of one of the world’s first implementations of a software factory (the EFx Factory), which demonstrates some of the advanced features of a future generation of software factories to come from Microsoft. We questioned him on his view of the Microsoft Software Factory Initiative.

Hartmut Wilms
on Jun 05, 2007
Using Java to Crack Office 2007

Office file manipulation used to be difficult, but since Office 2007, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files can be read and written without anything more complicated than the native JDK itself because Office 2007 documents are now nothing more than ZIP files of XML documents. Ted Neward demonstrates this in action.

Ted Neward
on Jun 04, 2007
Implementing Exceptions in SOA

In this InfoQ article, Boris Lublinsky highlights the problems with exception handling in SOA, and suggests a SOA-based solution: a logging service that accepts all logging requests, stores and forwards them to an exception resolution service, which is responsible for enforcing rules about exception resolution, a notification service, an exceptions/logging portal, and service management.

Boris Lublinsky
on May 30, 2007
Case Study: Composite Applications at Safeco

A case study about how motor vehicle insurance records company Safeco used SOA approahes, SCA, BPEL, and composite application approaches to reuse legacy code, enable runtime modifiability thanks to decoupling, Java and .NET interoperability, and the ability to deliver a complex solution integrating over 5 systems in less than 8 weeks with a small team.

JJ Dubray Steve Gies Cy Pauly Denis Rivera Bill Seagren Andy Coughlan Kari Wittgens Joanna Baas Ilene Samowitz Jennifer Fernandes
on May 29, 2007
Automating File Uploads with SSH and Ruby

In this article, Matthew Bass guides you step-by-step through the process of creating your own version of a Ruby script to automate file uploads using SSH. Complete source code examples are included, with line-by-line analysis of what the code is doing. A good introduction to Ruby as a powerful scripting language.

Matthew Bass
on May 29, 2007
Case study: A new approach to integrating architectures post-merger at Lawson

The merger of Lawson and Intentia in 2006 left developers with an important problem to solve - the integration and presentation of legacy applications and business services that are constructed in Java, .NET, and other technologies. This case study looks under the hood at the new architecture at Lawson and how they got there.

Barry Livingston
on May 21, 2007
InfoQ Changelog

InfoQ maintains a version number tied to new features developed for the site as a means to communicate progress to its audience. v1.1.5 is the latest version. InfoQ initially launced at 0.6 last year.

Alexandru Popescu
on May 20, 2007
Making Sense of all these Crazy Web Service Standards

Michele Leroux Bustamante explains the most relevant WS-* standards used today in terms of their actual implementation among WS platforms (with a focus on Java and .NET), their level of adoption and readiness. If you are new to web services or to the WS* protocols, or you are having difficulty keeping up with the pace of change in this area, this article should help.

Michele Leroux Bustamante
on May 16, 2007
Coming From Ruby

Do you "come from" a particular programming language? If so, that's great — but don't forget to take each language on its own terms. David A. Black shares some thoughts about "coming from" a language, and the etiquette of language travel, in the context of the recent history of Ruby.

David Black
on May 14, 2007

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