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Atomikos TransactionsEssentials: JTA/XA transaction management outside of Java EE
Atomikos TransactionsEssentials, a Java-based transaction manager, just released version 3.2. InfoQ spoke with Atomikos CTO Guy Pardon to learn more about this release, and also about TransactionsEssentials and third-party transaction managers in general.
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OASIS Announces OpenCSA Webinars
In a further attempt to help spread the message about the SCA standardization effort and educate the community, OASIS has announced a series of webinars around the various OpenCSA specifications.
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Interview: Paul Fremantle on the State of WS-*
In a new InfoQ interview, Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder co-chair of the OASIS committee that standardized WS-Reliable Messaging, talks to InfoQ about the state and relative importance of web services standards, the role of open source software for SOA, his views on the eternal REST debate, and WSO2's business model.
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Data Services in SOA: Issues and Possible Solutions
Data Services are increasingly generating interest in Service Oriented Architectures. David Webber wrote an article detailing some of the difficulties to define contracts for AWS and some of the solutions using the Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM).
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Does the rise of Service Oriented UI (SOUI) means the death of server-assisted MVC?
Nolan Wright thinks server-assisted MVC implementations are a thing of the past and that Services, Ajax and DHTML can greatly simplify the way we build web applications.
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Microsoft Releases Managed Services Engine (Repository)
The topic of virtualization has been heating up in the SOA space as more and more enterprises look for ways to harvest their existing IT assets towards new service infrastructure. Microsoft's recent silence on the issue has now made way for a community focused release of a meta-data driven service repository.
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Presentations of the BeJUG SOA Conference available on parleys.com
The videos of three talks at the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) Enterprise SOA'07 Conference have been published on parleys.com.
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Oslo: Microsoft Gets it but Hurry !
There has been few comments on Microsoft's Oslo announcement. In general they are positive but people are worried about the timeline and complexity of the project. Very few people commented on the in-the-cloud services that complement Oslo.
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Lord Of The Rings: Web Style
Paul Downey has produced a Lord of the Rings style adventuring map for SOA, titled The Web Is Agreement.
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Enterprise SOA: End Of The Line?
Joe McKendrick, Jeff Schneider and others discuss whether or not enterprise SOA is dead on arrival and that perhaps pragmatic/geurilla SOA is the best approach after all.
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Oslo: Microsoft Takes Composite Applications to the Mainstream
Microsoft unveiled this morning a vision and roadmap to simplify SOA, bridge software + services and take composite applications to the mainstream. The code name of this effort is “Oslo”.
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Pattie Maes on Ambient Intelligence
At OOPSLA 2007, Pattie Maes gave an interesting talk about the MIT ambient intelligence projects. One project, ReachMedia, was particularly interesting from an architectural, mashup and social networking perspective.
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CBDI Publishes Service Architecture and Engineering Metamodel V2.0
Everware-CBDI announced recently the publication of their second release of ther Service Architecture & Engineering Metamodel which provide different views to capture the metadata associated to services. Salamander announced this week the release of a solution combining their leading MooD product and the SAE metamodel.
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Setting out for Service Component Architecture
Henning Blohm, Java EE Software Architect at SAP and Co-Chair of the SCA-J Technical Committee provides his perspective on SCA as a cross-technology programming model integration. He claims that for vendors SCA lowers the marginal costs of providing implementation or binding technology and for users it reduces the marginal costs of using them.
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SOA Is Alive And Well?
ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer gives their take on the current life of SOA and why so many people may have been tolling the bell for it far too early.