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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 .
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Using Axis2 for Asynchronous Web Services
A new article by Eran Chinthaka, Develop asynchronous Web services with Axis2, provides several examples of using the asynchronous APIs of Axis2 in client and server side applications.
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HTTP Being Revised
Mark Nottingham notes that the HTTPbis working group had its first face-to-face meeting recently to discuss updates to HTTP.
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Amazon Announces AWS Challenge Winner
The AWS Challenge gathered seven finalists to face a panel of judges to demonstrate their use of Amazon Web Services. A Video Streaming Platform won the challenge (and the $100,000 prize).
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Presentation: Werner Vogels on The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation
In a presentation recorded at QCon, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse businesses are built on this platform. Although Amazon.com's scale makes them seem an extreme case, lessons have been learnt that will be of use to every enterprise looking to provide services to or to consume services of business partners.
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Article: Stefan Tilkov helps you get started with REST
Representational State Transfer (REST), the architecture behind the web is quickly becoming a real alternative to be considered by architects developing distributed systems. In a recently released article, Stefan Tilkov delves into the ways of designing systems using REST and examines the similarities and differences between classic interface-based approaches.
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Google Releases Chart API
Google releases a Chart API for creating charts and graphs for Web sites. Currently it supports line charts, bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots and sparklines.
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Article: The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution
In a new InfoQ article, Jean-Jacques Dubray explores a new architecture blueprint for BPMSs that offers a cleaner alignment between SOA and BPM. Jean-Jacques argues that after more than eight years of intense research, we are still far from having the ability to use the business process models designed by business analysts to create complete executable solutions.
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Funding SOA
A quick search on the web shows that the question of Funding SOA seems to be almost taboo. Todd Biske provided us with a summary of the discussion that took place on this topic at the Gartner AADI Summit.
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7 Degrees of SOA Coupling
In a recent posting, ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer tackles the belief that a system is either loosely-coupled, or it isn’t. Although the importance of loose-coupling has been known for some time, the dialogue around this post has garnered some interesting discussion.
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QCon London March 12-14 Announced
QCon London 2008, taking place March 12-14 has been launched and is open for registration. QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering the range of topics also on InfoQ as well as a strong focus on architecture & design, real world case studies, and more. This is the 3rd QCon, don't miss it!
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Microsoft Updates Software-as-a-Service Reference App LitwareHR with S+S
As more enterprises are looking at software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, Microsoft has augmented their LitwareHR reference application to include the Software + Services (S+S) model. Enabling the integration of local and "in the cloud" software, S+S allows for the disconnected and offline scenarios lacking in today's hosted solutions.
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A Second WS-CDL Tool-Suite Is Born
Hongbing Wang and his team in China become the second group to release a WS-CDL based tool-suite. Several people have suggested that WS-CDL is the an often overlooked critical component in developing Web 2.0 and SOA applications, but until now (and for the past few years) there has been only one tool-suite.