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InfoQ Article: Will the Enterprise change Ruby, or will Ruby change the Enterprise?
Ruby is often criticized for lacking the features required for developing large applications and maintaining them over long periods of time with large teams. Are we missing something fundamental for widescale adoption of Ruby in the enterprise?
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Contracts, Expectations, Agreements and Processes
Contract first development isn't a new idea, but has some followers in the SOA domain. Recently, the W3C has extended the WSDL to include semantic annotations, enriching the basic contract with more metadata. Contracts are also explored in more detail in the development of processes by Steve Jones using tools like Eclipse and NetBeans.
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ESB Roundup Part One: Defining the ESB
A healthy debate has arisen in the SOA community around the Enterprise Service Bus. Is an ESB needed? What is the best definition of an ESB? When should an ESB be deployed? What is its role in SOA? In the first part of a series, InfoQ explores this vital topic.
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InfoQ Newsletter is now being sent out
InfoQ is now sending out a weekly newsletter by email. To get the newsletter, just register to the site. The newsletter is a quick and easy way to keep up to date with all new content and major headlines on the site. In future, the newsletter will be personalized to the communities you're interested in and also have other rich features.
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WebLogic Server 9.2, Portal 9.2, Workshop on Eclipse Released
BEA last week released the WebLogic 9.2 platform family of products including WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal (which now runs on WL 9.2), and Workshop for WebLogic (now built on Eclipse for the first time).
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InfoQ Article: Secure and Reliable Web Services
Web Services can become the single standard for all exchange of structured data. After waiting over 5 years, two important Web Services specifications have finally been endorsed: WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging. Will these specifications allow the adoption of web services as a standard for all communication within and between organizations?
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JBI Spec Lead Criticizes Competing SCA Initiative
JBI (Java Business Integration) spec lead Ron Ten-Hove examines SCA (Service Component Architecture) and considers it "a very poor approach to creating a service-oriented architecture".
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JBoss ESB: a chat with Mark Little
InfoQ had an opportunity to chat with Dr. Mark Little, the director of the JBoss ESB effort. Since the recent acquisition of the Rosetta ESB by JBoss (now a subsidiary of RedHat), the SOA community at InfoQ has been interested in some more details about this project. Here's the story as told by Mark to InfoQ.
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DataDirect XQuery 2.0 Released; W3C XQuery Specs Updated
DataDirect has released XQuery 2.0, a Java implementation of the XML query and transformation language (XQuery) API for Java (XQJ) that allows the querying of combinations of RDBMS, XML, EDI, CSV, and other sources and returns the results as XML. On June 8th, new versions of the XQuery and related W3C specs were submitted, currently in Candidate Recommendation stage.
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Microsoft, REST, and Robots
Microsoft's merging of REST principles with Web services in a particular application domain may be an exception or another sign of a change in strategy.
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Catching up with Java Use in Telco Companies (OSS/J)
Java is probably more widely used in the Telco industry than any other platform, but this fact is not very widely known by Java developers, many of whom have only heard of OSS/J in passing. OSS/J A A new article explaining the need and impact OSS/J APIs standardize a range of Telco IT needs and are creating a standards-based component marketplace that is having a big impact.
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InfoQ Article: SOA anti-patterns
SOA Expert Steve Jones from CapGemini provides a hands on look at SOA Antipatterns and a list of ways your SOA project can go wrong. This list includes signs that these problems are cropping up as well as what to do when you see them happening.
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Gartner Web Services Conference Report
A Field Report from the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summitt 2006 shows some mixed trends in SOA and Web Services as well as new products and analysis.
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Advanced Message Queue Protocol to Commoditize Messaging
The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) has been announced today by JP Morgan Chase, RedHat, Twist, Cisco, Iona, and others. AMQP is an open specification for queue-based messaging that is technology agnostic and completely interoperable; it aims commoditize the messaging middleware industry and provide true interoperability across technology stacks in any language or operating system.
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The Rise and Fall of CORBA
CORBA guru Michi Henning analyzes the reasons for CORBA's (perceived or real) failure and puts blame on the standardization process.