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Article: Mark Baker on Hypermedia in RESTful Applications
One of the constraints defined for the architectural style known as REST is "hypermedia as the engine of application state". Mark Baker, well-known for being one of the first who advocated the REST style instead of the mainstream web services approach, discusses what the hypermedia constraints means in practice and why it is essential to RESTful design.
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Article: Building Asynchronous Services With SCA
In an InfoQ exclusive article, Mike Edwards discusses how to create asynchronous services within the Service Component Architecture.
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WCF Web Programming Model Resources
Since the first announcement of WCF's Web Programming Model and its official release within the .NET Framework 3.5 only few information have been readily available. Now, Steve Maine provides a comprehensive list of resources.
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Interview: IBM CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero
IBM Fellow and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo talks about REST and Project Zero, IBM's new Groovy & PHP based RESTful app mashup / scripting / dev tool.
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QCon London March 12-14 Update: Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Google, Amazon, Yahoo!
QCon's second annual conference in London, UK is taking place in just 8 weeks, March 12-14. In the last month, a number of important additions have been made to the conf: XP founder Kent Beck, author Martin Fowler, sessions from Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Salesforce.com, MySpace.com, eBay, Merrill, Betfair, Credit Suisse, and others. Gang of Four Patterns author Erich Gamma is also presenting.
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Christian Weyer on Service Oriented Communication
Communication is everywhere. The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) can be used to design and develop service-oriented distributed solutions. Christian Weyer provides a practical approach to realizing distributed solutions with WCF - beyond the hype and 'Hello World'.
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WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5
David Chappell, Principal of Chappell & Associates, presents the various communication styles provided by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in his white paper called "Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5".
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Specialized Message Patterns for SOA
Adobe have just published a document on SOA message exchange patterns. It also contains a good primer on SOA principles. Duane Nickull, the chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee, is a co-author, making this well worth a look.
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Should developers write their own transaction coordination logic?
In a recent discussion Mark Little and Greg Pavlik discuss whether transaction coordinators and transaction protocols are necessary in the context of widely distributed units of work. Isn't the knowledge of state alignment patterns enough?
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Presentation: Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo!
In a presentation recorded at QCon, Mark Nottingham, a "Principal Technical Yahoo!", provided some insight into how the Yahoo! Media Group uses the Web, and not Web services, to build its SOA variant. According to Mark, the Yahoo! Media Group gains significant advantages by using HTTP RESTfully, especially by exploiting caching opportunities.
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BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask Head To OASIS
John Evdemon, co-chair of the WS-BPEL technical committee, has announced that BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask are going to OASIS. Adding a standard approach to human interaction support to WS-BPEL is something many people have been asking for and this could be the solution.
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Component Composition Strategies and Tactics
With the advent of Spring and the development of the Dependency Injection pattern, Component Technologies have started providing advanced composition mechanisms. In the past month IBM and SAP published related articles exploring the modern strategies and tactics to develop composite business solutions.
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Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology
Sun Microsystems started a tour in the US to present a comprehensive view of the technologies and approaches it recommends to build Service-Oriented-Architectures with Java Technology.
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Is The Internet More Fundamental Than REST?
The debate over whether or not REST is better than WS-* has been simmering for a while, with no clear winner. However, Ganesh Prasad tries to add more fuel to the debate and illustrates how he believes REST is not the most fundamental and extensible approach after all.
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EviWare Releases v2.0 of soapUI, a Web Services Test Suite
EviWare, an open source company recently released v2.0 of their soapUI product at JavaPolis 2007. The test suite is capable of tracking test coverage, perform test refactoring based on updated WSDLs and creating mockup services from previously recorded requests/responses .