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Presentation: Gregor Hohpe on Developing in a Service-oriented World
In this presentation, Google architect Gregor Hohpe takes a look at the architectural aspects of SOA, addressing issues such as the false sense of simplicity and the problems of established programming models.
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Article: The Challenges of Latency
In an exclusive InfoQ article, eBay architect Dan Pritchett explains why global, large-scale architectures need to address latency, and what architectural patterns can be applied to deal with it.
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OASIS WS-RM closes
The OASIS WS-RM technical committee has closed. This groups work should not be confused with OASIS WS-RX which is still going forward.
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OSGi for application modularity - one company's design choice
Much has been written about the the adoption of OSGi by tools vendors and application servers, but one of the areas OSGi may have the most impact for developers in the future is as a better component model for application development. InfoQ spoke to BPS, an ISV who chose to re-architect their application around OSGi to find out why this one company made the choice.
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Enter the Internet Service Bus
On April 24th Microsoft released the BizTalk Services CTP, taking the idea of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as as a means of discovering, connecting and federating services a step further and elevating it to the Internet Service Bus (ISB).
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Sun demonstrates WS-AT interoperability with Microsoft
Sun's latest Project Tango release includes WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-Coordination support. They also have demonstrated interoperability .NET 3.0 clients.
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Red Hat splits JBoss development tree, acquires MetaMatrix
Red Hat made two big announcements today at a press conference about their middleware strategy. First, they're separating JBoss into two branches, similar to what they did with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Secondly, they have acquired all the assets of MetaMatrix, provider of federated data services and metadata management to boost their SOA offerings.
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Live From Redmond Coverage: Orcas Overview
In conjunction with the release of VS Orcas Beta 1, the VB Team is hosting a series of live web casts. The first installment, presented by John Stallo, ran today.
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Interview: Scott Allan on Windows Workflow Foundation
Scott Allan is interviewed by David Totzke on Windows Workflow Foundation, recorded a year ago at VSLive Toronto. Scott talks about the capabilities of Windows Workflow foundation, how it integrates into application development, how Microsoft is using WWF in its own products, DSLs and WWF, and architectural pattterns possible with WWF.
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Microsoft SOA Reference Model, Initial Draft of the Introductory Chapter
John Evdemon, an architect with the Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team has published an initial draft of the introductory chapter of a Microsoft Abstract SOA Reference Model. According to Evdemon this paper shall serve as an abstract reference for understanding, designing and building software architectures that adhere to service-oriented principles.
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WS-TX as an OASIS standard
OASIS approves the Web Services Transactions committee specifications as a new standard and the TC co-chair blogs about its history.
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WPF/E is Now Silverlight
With much fanfare, Microsoft has announced Silverlight, a new cross-platform, browser independent runtime designed based on XAML and JavaScript with the potential to go head to head with Adobe Flash.
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Interview: Ramnivas Laddad on AOP Design, Modelling, and Policy Enforcement
Ramnivas Laddad talks about domain aspects, how aspects fit in the design phase, how to model aspects in UML, how to enforce policies with Aspects, how he used Aspects to diagnose production problems including touch threading problems, and using aspects to simplify design pattern implementation.
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Article: Interview with Restlet creator Jérome Louvel
In this exclusive InfoQ interview, Jérome Louvel talks about Restlet, a Java framework for building Web applications following the REST architectural style. Topics covered include the reason for Restlet's existence, REST support in Web services frameworks and in Ruby on Rails, expectations for JSR 311 and Restlet's roadmap.
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An SOA and Agile Discussion
SOA aims at making the entire enterprise agile by using services as the building blocks for applications. Agile software development aims at making organizations agile by introducing practices that increase communication and feedback. This article brought up a few points of agreement and disagreement between the two techniques and readers have started discussion their points of view.