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Article: REST Anti-Patterns
In this InfoQ exclusive article, Stefan Tilkov discusses some of the oft-used anti-patterns for REST based development.
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Agile Cloud Computing?
Almost a year on from their initial announcements around grids and cloud computing, Arjuna Technologies have released more details of what they're working on: a new Cloud-platform called Arjuna Agility that emphasises a non-invasive approach to getting the most out of your IT investments as they migrate to the cloud.
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Is Enterprise Data Management the Third Face of the SOA/BPM Coin?
Fred Cummins, an EDS fellow, and SOA veteran, wrote an essay last week on "Data Management for SOA". He is looking at how some of the key tenets of service design ("loose coupling" and "autonomy") relate to enterprise data in the context of achieving reuse and enabling change.
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Opinion: When Designing Your SOA - Taste is Everything
Dan Creswell claims that "taste is everything" when it comes to putting together the pieces that make a good SOA. Dan says that picking the technology stack for distributed services, how you layer the service "units", etc, are a matter of taste as well as consideration of a number of guidelines, as opposed to just taking a cookie cutter approach to SOA as some seem to claim is possible.
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Interview: Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services, and REST
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and loosely coupled systems, and the possibility of an end to the Web services vs. REST debate.
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Einstein: an Experimental 4GL for SOA
SOA implementation typically requires usage of multiple technologies for implementing different SOA aspects. Such implementation is a daunting task, requiring, at a minimum, understanding different technologies, involved in typical SOA implementation. One of the possible solutions to this complexity is developing Domain Specific programming languages for SOA.
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Merge, Replace, or Patch: How Astoria Handles Changing Data
Using REST, what should happen when you perform a PUT operation to update existing data? The Astoria Team asks that question and explains their answer.
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Composing SCA Solutions and SCA’s Approach to Policy and Bindings Presentations
SCA continues to gain momentum, becoming a dominant SOA programming model adopted by many commercial SOA products. Several recently published presentations explain capabilities, inner working and usage of SCA.
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Loose Coupling in SOA Defined
In the debate on whether cohesion is important for SOA, Carlos Perez expressed his views on coupling in software construction, and how it has evolved in the context of an SOA. He starts out with Bertrand Meyer's principles of modularity and extends it to his own set of principles for service orientation.
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SOA Wordle: Nice But Is It Art?
Mike Matsumura has produced a SOA wordle (word cloud) that is interesting to look at, but is it an accurate reflection of SOA?
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Are SOA Centers of Excellence Necessary?
SOA is introducing new and complex processes and technologies while aiming at achieving challenging goals for the enterprise. A SOA Consortium panel discusses the importance of establishing a SOA CoE with a broad set of skills as a key success factor for delivering SOA.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched
QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.
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Interview: Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.
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OAuth Gaining Momentum
OAuth, an open standard for access delegation, is gaining momentum with a number of implementations including one for Spring Security.
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Article: David Nuescheler on JCR and REST
In this interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler discusses the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.