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David Nuescheler on JCR and REST

In this interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler discusses the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.

Stefan Tilkov
on Jun 10, 2008
ESB Topology Alternatives

In this article, Adrien Louis discusses the pros and cons of two topology alternatives for ESB-based SOAs: A single ESB for the company vs. a system of "departmental" ESBs that are connected to each other. Adrien describes how the alternatives affect issues such as administration, business monitoring, governance, reliability, and orchestration.

Adrien Louis
on May 23, 2008
InfoQ Interviews BPEL4People Representatives

In another "virtual panel session", we took the opportunity to talk with representatives of the new OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee and get their feedback on just why we need this work. Apart from asking them what BPEL4People (and WS-HumanTask) are all about, we asked them how this relates to other BPMN efforts and what else we can expect in this area.

Mark Little
on Apr 24, 2008
A RESTful ESB implemented using NetKernel

Jeremy Deane, Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting, takes a look at writing a Restful ESB using NetKernel. He explains how commercial ESB's were considered and NetKernel was ultimately used to provide the implementation.

Jeremy Deane
on Apr 08, 2008
RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws

In this article, Steve Vinoski explains how to build RESTful Web services using the Erlang programming language and the Yaws web server. While Steve considers most Web frameworks failures simply because they were a poor match to the problem, he believes Yaws and Erlang are a better match for RESTful development than many other language frameworks that were built specifically for that purpose.

Steve Vinoski
on Mar 31, 2008
Addressing Doubts about REST

Invariably, learning about REST means that you’ll end up wondering just how applicable the concept really isbeyond introductory, “Hello, World”-level stuff. In this article, Stefan Tilkov addresses 10 of the most common doubts people have about REST when they start exploring it, especially if they have a strong background in the architectural approach behind SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.

Stefan Tilkov
on Mar 13, 2008
Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services

Programmatic access to SharePoint is limited to .NET based languages unless a developer utilizes web services. Trent provides examples of how to extend the out of the box web services and how to consume them from both .NET and Java.

Trent Swanson
on Feb 06, 2008
Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow ?

Tom Baeyens, founder of JBoss jBPM gives his view of the state of the BPM / workflow market and introdces a new type of workflow technology called process component models.

Tom Baeyens
on Feb 04, 2008
Hypermedia in RESTful applications

One of the constraints defined for the architectural style known as REST is "hypermedia as the engine of application state". Mark Baker, well-known for being one of the first who advocated the REST style instead of the mainstream web services approach, discusses that the hypermedia constraints means in practice and why it is essential to RESTful design.

Mark Baker
on Jan 28, 2008
"Can I call you back about that?" Building Asynchronous Services using Service Component Architecture

This article discusses the need for asynchronous services when you build an application using a service-oriented architecture. Building asynchronous services can get complicated, but is made straightforward using Service Component Architecture (SCA). The steps involved in using SCA to create an asynchronous service and asynchronous service client are described in this article.

Mark Edwards
on Jan 23, 2008
Introduction to NetKernel

NetKernel is a software system that combines properties of REST and Unix into an abstraction called resource oriented computing (ROC). The core of resource oriented computing is the separation of logical requests for information (resources) from the physical mechanism (code) which delivers it. This article provides an introduction to the NetKernel framework.

Randolph Kahle
on Jan 22, 2008
Interview and Book Excerpt: Nicolai Josuttis, "SOA in Practice"

Today, InfoQ publishes a sample chapter from Nicolai Josuttis' "SOA in Practice". On this occasion, InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov had a chance to sit down with Nicolai to ask about his views on SOA, the main industry misconceptions about it, key success factors and a recommendation for how to approach it.

Stefan Tilkov
on Jan 15, 2008

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