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Entity Services - Pattern or Anti-pattern?
Entity Services or business-centric entities are considered by some to be a corner stone of Service Oriented Architecture - however not everyone agrees with this view. So are Entity Services a pattern or an anti-pattern for SOA?
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Article: Unit-Testing XML
In this exclusive InfoQ article, Stefan Bodewig explains how to use the XMLUnit Java framework to write tests in the presence of XML.
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Google GData/Atom Publishing Protocol too limited for Microsoft
Dara Obasanjo writes about the limitations of the Google Data API (Google's implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol with some extensions) as a general purpose protocol and explains why Microsoft will not support or standardize on GData.
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W3C Workshop on Web of Services Report
The W3C has released a report about the results of the Workshop on the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, which was held in February.
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InfoQ Turns One Year Old!
InfoQ officially launched exactly one year ago today, and what a year it has been! Our mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community; in keeping with that mission InfoQ has published a crazy amount of content, launched our QCon event in London, launched InfoQ China, and have reached over 135,000 unique visitors/month.
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BEA and Oracle incorporate Sun's Project Tango
Both Oracle and BEA have incorporated Sun's Web Services stack, Project Tango. Sun are keen to publicize the fact that it is being worked on in open source. Do either of these factors make Tango a force to be reckoned with or will this be another example of Sun trailing behind the pack?
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REST Describe and Compile
Thomas Steiner, author of the REST Describe & Compile tool, which creates a WADL description from existing REST messages and can generate code from WADL, answers InfoQ's questions.
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Debate: Does REST Need a Description Language?
Following up on the debate of REST vs. WS-* discussed here last week, it is interesting to note a debate about "contracts" for RESTful services that has been picking up pace over the last few days.
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Is Open Source the way ahead for SOA?
Dana Gardner cites several recent announcements as further proof that there is close synergy between open source and SOA. Will SOA adoption be better driven through the open source path?
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Interview and Book Excerpt: RESTful Web Services
InfoQ publishes a chapter from "RESTful Web Services" by Richardson and Ruby; in an accompanying interview, the authors explain their motivations and REST as an alternative to SOAP/WSDL Web services.
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Casestudy: Composite Application Development at Safeco
A case study about how motor vehicle insurance records company Safeco used SOA approahes, SCA, BPEL, and composite application approaches to reuse legacy code, enable runtime modifiability thanks to decoupling, Java and .NET interoperability, and the ability to deliver a complex solution integrating over 5 systems in less than 8 weeks with a small team.
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Is REST Winning?
The topic of REST as an alternative for integration has been debated on InfoQ many times before. Recent news suggest REST is now gaining mind share among analysts and vendors, with some seeing REST as "the next big thing".
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Article: Implementing Exceptions in SOA
In an InfoQ article, Boris Lublinsky highlights the problems with exception handling in SOA, and suggests applying SOA principles to exception handling as a solution.
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HP launches SOA on the world
HP announces the release of a new suite of SOA related products and services, which represent a merger of its in-house capabilities and those obtained through the Mercury acquisition.
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