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Behind Tungsten: New Open Source Web Services Platform
WSO2 last week released Tungsten, an Apache license web services appserver platform that supports all the components of the WS-* stack and provides an integrated, tested runtime combining all the key components of the Apache Web Services stack. Tungsten apps can be written as POJOs or via direct programmatic access to XML using AXIOM or the STAX API (The Streaming API for XML).
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Clemens Vasters on Services and Business/IT Alignment
Clemens Vasters writes about the value of service-orientation (or lack thereof) for aligning business and IT.
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WebSphere 6.1 Released; Updated for Java 5, SOA
IBM has released WebSphere 6.1 to it's customers (free trial download not available yet), marking a signficant release that updates the server with J2SE 5, JSF 1.1, 64 bit, JMX management via JSR 160, support for WS-Addressing, Notification, Business Activity, WS-I Security Profile 1.0, and more. The release comes a year and a half after the J2EE 1.4 compliant WebSphere 6.0 was released.
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Grid Computing Overview
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and high profile blogger, has posted a useful overview of alternatives for Grid Computing, including the Web services-based OSGA.
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SOA "Soft Landing"
Is SOA a bubble? How will new emerging technologies fit in to the SOA picture? Are we due for an SOA bubble bursting, or a "soft landing" for SOA?
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Informatica Announces On-Demand Integration
Informatica, well-known for data integration products, has announced plans to support data integration across company boundaries.
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InfoQ Enterprise Software Development Community Unlaunched
Welcome to the "unlaunch" of InfoQ.com, a new community that aims to be your source for keeping up with change and innovation in the enterprise software development community, specifically serving the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities. Please read this news item to learn about the site, its goals, features, and why it matters.
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Interview with SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
In an interview at their annual user conference, SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann talks about the role SOA plays in SAP's application strategy.
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SOA 2.0
Not content with the SOA concept, Gartner and Oracle have created "SOA 2.0" as a label for a more advanced approach to service-orientation.
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SOA Meets Web 2.0 at SOA Executive Forum
InfoWorld is holding an SOA Executive today at which an expert panel discussed Web 2.0 in the context of SOA, how businesses can develop composite apps outside the firewall using technologies typically considered Web 2.0.
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on SOA in Practice
In an interview conducted by Jim Gray, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels provides background information on Amazon.com's service-oriented technology platform.
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1st Draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures Released
The W3C has published a first public working draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures, a set of data types, structures and schema patterns to increase Web services interoperability.
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WS-Addressing Becomes a W3C Recommendation
The WS-Addressing core and WS-Addressing SOAP binding specifications have reached full Recommendation status at W3C. WS-Addressing describes how to encode addressing information independently from the underlying transport protocol, enabling asynchronous communication across synchronous protocols such as HTTP.
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Article: Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability
.NET and Java interop can be made really simple using a REST documentcentric approach. This article compares a REST and SOAP approach to interop as well as the advantages of using HTTP POST vs. GET for REST invocations.
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Article: A History of Extended Transactions
ACID transactions don't work for long-lived use cases. This article documents historic approaches taken in the CORBA and J2EE communities toward extended transactions, how SOA is a more natural fit, and why WS-TX & WS-CAF may finally hold the answer.