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SOA in the Real World
Microsoft has published a free eBook titled "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the Real World". The book presents Microsoft's view of Service Oriented Architectures and contains several real world examples that show how a SOA can be implemented by using Microsoft products and technologies.
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Article: Service Composition
In an InfoQ article, Boris Lublinsky discusses the main approaches to service composition, both from design and implementation point of view, and outlines the benefits of using orchestration. Topics covered include hierarchical vs. conversational composition, composition topologies, and the pros and cons of difference implementation approaches.
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Partitioned-Iterative more appropriate for EA than Zachman, TOGAF?
Roger Sessions claims that the most popular EA frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF, FEA, and Gartner) have failed to evolve to the needs of today's more complex development needs. Instead, Sessions proposes a 'Partitioned-Iterative' Approach that reduces complexity through partitioning an organization in smaller pieces, rather than defining the architecture for the whole company at once.
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Interview: Anne Thomas Manes on SOA, Governance, and REST
In an InfoQ interview, recorded at QCon London, Anne Thomas Manes, research director at Burton Group, talks about the state of SOA, explains different ways of getting funding for SOA initiatives, the value of SOA governance and governance tools. Another topic covered is the applicability of REST to SOA, the need for a RESTful description language, and REST support in SOAP toolkits.
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Google Base vs. Microsoft's Astoria
Dare Obasanjo has done a comparison of two new protocols for access database style data via HTTP. These protocols, based on REST, are the Google Base and Microsoft's Astoria.
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InfoQ Launches Architecture Community
InfoQ has launched a 6th community on 'Architecture', the intention of which is to serve as a source for tracking change and innovation of interest to those with an architecting/design role but not specific to any of our other communities on InfoQ which currently include Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile.
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Using Amazon Web Services to Implement a Video File Conversion app
As covered on InfoQ in the past, Amazon's infrastructure services platform is enabling new levels of cost savings as well as capabilities for certain classes of applications that can map to its scalable compute and storage services. One recent sample application demonstrates building a complete video file conversion service.
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WSO2 Releases Web Service Framework/C v1.0 and announces Mashup Server
WSO2 announced the release of WSF/C which is a C library used for producing and consuming web services in C. Similar releases exist for Java and PHP. They also announced a new product, the Mashup Server which will be a platform for creating, deploying, and consuming Web services Mashups.
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W3C Efficient XML Interchange format draft published
The W3C has recently announced the first public draft for the Efficient XML Interchange Format which is a suggestion for compressing XML to increase the efficiency on the wire and on CPUs. As can be expected it didn't take too long before we started to see some criticism of this new standard...Yes, another debate on binary XML is on its way.
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Presentation: Introduction to Component Based Architecture
Mark Miller provides an introduction to Component Based Architecture and its competitive advantages. First delivered at devLink, Mark covers the theory of Component Architecture and its effect on Developers, Customers and the software product itself.
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BPM + SOA as a Composite Application Model is Gaining Mindshare
Most infrastructure software vendors have augmented their SOA offering with Business Process Management and Business Analytics capabilities to enable their customers to build composite applications. In a recent survey, 50% say they will turn to BPM and SOA in 2007 to enable business process automation and agility unfulfilled by traditional enterprise applications.
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Are Cross-Service Transactions A Violation of the Autonomous Tenet of Service Orientation?
This question prompted a heated debate on MSDN in the wake of the release of the first web service transaction standard last May. Juval Löwy from IDesign, Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz and others exchange their arguments as they answer the question.
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The Problem With SCA?
Eric Newcomer comments on David Chappells assertion that SCA participants have differing views about what aspects of SCA are important. In David's view it is the new Java programming model. Eric disagrees: in his view it's the service assembly model.
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Article: Roles in SOA Governance
In this article Stefan Tilkov, innoQ SOA consultant and InfoQ SOA Community editor, introduces a potential set of roles for successful SOA Governance. He describes the individual roles as well as the tasks assigned to each independent of any tool, vendor, or technology.
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SOA != Web Services
Many people seem to think that SOA and web-services are the same thing - but they are not. In a recent article Zapthink analyst tried to look at some of the causes for that and said it it was time to make the distinction between the terms more clear.