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IBM Updates Architect Content/Info Kit
IBM in May updated their "Software Architect Kit", a bundle of content for architects including podcasts by Grady Booch on trends, patterns and best practices in architecture, webcasts, demos, and whitepapers on patterns-based development, SOA, model-driven architecture, and software structure & modularity. The kit requires registration before all the content can be downloaded.
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Open Source Business Models Debate: Create & Support vs. Pure-Support
Two different approaches and viewpoints about professional open source collided in a recent blogspace discussion where Rod Johnson (creator of the Spring Framework & CEO of Interface21 which offers Spring support services) and Stormy Peters from OpenLogic had a heated debate.
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Reliable Messaging in Ruby with AP4R
Shun'ichi Shinohara and Kiwamu Kato have been working on bringing reliable messging to Ruby with their own API & protocol project, based on previous experiences designing a Java-based high volume messaging framework. AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, is an implementation of reliable asynchronous message processing, providing message queuing and message dispatching.
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APP vs. Web3S: the Quest for a RESTful Protocol
In contrast to Google, who base their public RESTful services on the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Microsoft has found the need to go down a different route and has introduced Web3S.
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Applying REST Principles to Complex Applications
In a blog post, REST expert Joe Gregorio shows how to apply REST principles to complex applications, using the Apache DayTrader Benchmark, which requires reliable delivery of orders, as an example.
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Article: Service Firewall Pattern
InfoQ publishes a sample pattern from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz' in-progress book SOA Patterns. Arnon explains how to use a Service Firewall to intercept messages to provide better security.
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SOA Research In Academia Increasingly Industry Focused
If this years European Young Researchers workshop on Service Oriented Computing is anything to go by then academic research is much more heavily influenced by industry directions than ever before. Although not always the best of partners, industry and academia can learn from one another. But who is driving the innovation: academic research or industrial pragmatism?
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Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee honored again
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, is appointed to Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II.
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CentraSite: Registry/Repository and Free Community Edition
Software AG and Fujitsu have released CentraSite Registry/Respository 3.1. InfoQ talks to Software AG's Gerd Schneider about the role of a registry/repository in SOA and the CentraSite product in particular.
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Apache Synapse 1.0 and WSO2 ESB 1.0 Released
<p></p> <p>The open source mediation platform Synapse 1.0 has been released, as well as a commercial ESB product which based on it. InfoQ spoke to WSO2's CTO and Synapse committer Paul Fremantle, about the details.</p>
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Article: SOA Governance: The Basics
In this article, MomentumSI's Ed Vazquez explains the basics of SOA governance, with an explicit focus on the need for a holistic SOA governance model and shared governance principles.
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Apache Solr: Lucene Based Server Provides Highly Scalable Enterprise Search
Apache Solr is a Lucene-based enterprise search server that delivers out-of-the-box indexing and query capabilities in a portable war file. Users interact with Solr via an HTTP interface, submitting content for indexing and making queries using XML documents and HTTP GET parameters.
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Entity Services - Pattern or Anti-pattern?
Entity Services or business-centric entities are considered by some to be a corner stone of Service Oriented Architecture - however not everyone agrees with this view. So are Entity Services a pattern or an anti-pattern for SOA?
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Article: Unit-Testing XML
In this exclusive InfoQ article, Stefan Bodewig explains how to use the XMLUnit Java framework to write tests in the presence of XML.
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The Microsoft OBA Framework
Microsoft has been touting a new way to build composite applications using the acronym, “OBA”. The intended sweet spot for OBA is within the Lines of Business within the greater Enterprise cloud. The OBA framework capitalizes on the large number of Microsoft Office licenses that have been sold world-wide.