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SAAJ - Fine in Theory, Broken in Practice?
In a blog entry, Spring Web Services lead developer Arjen Poutsma discusses the sad state of various SAAJ implementations in major application servers.
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Interview: Pete Lacey on REST and Web Services
In this interview, recorded at QCon San Francisco, (then) Burton Group consultant Pete Lacey talks to Stefan Tilkov about the reasons for his disillusionment with SOAP, describes the ideas behind REST, and addresses some of its perceived shortcomings. Finally, he discusses cases where SOAP/WS-* or RESTful HTTP might be more appropriate.
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Mocking Web Services
Service simulation (mocking) – the ability to mimic service behavior even before they are implemented - enables service consumer developers and testers to parallelize their efforts without having to wait for service implementation to complete. Service simulation also provides a light-weight alternative to building expensive reference environments.
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Is Cohesion Important for SOA?
Jim Webber re-ignited some interesting discussions about the need (or not) for Cohesive Services within SOA. What started as a fairly innocuous post has certainly generated a lot of debate.
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BPEL4People Virtual Roundtable Interview
In another one of our semi-regular Virtual Roundtables, InfoQ took the opportunity to talk to some of the main authors behind the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications and find out the driving forces behind it and what we can expect next.
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Article: Spectacular Scalability with Smart Service Contracts
Udi Dahan describes an experience implementing a new order system in which large size message passing was affecting the scalability and even bringing down servers in the system. The article describes how they diagnosed the problem and their solution, by "changing our service contracts and introducing stateful interactions we were able to manage the performance critical state of the system."
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Spring Web Services 1.5 Released
After 6 months of work, Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been release. Based off contract-first development using SOAP service development, Spring-WS can be manipulated through XML to create document-driven Web services. Some of the highlights of the release include:
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Interview: Dan Diephouse on Atom, AtomPub, REST and Web Services
In a new interview, recorded at QCon San Francisco, Stefan Tilkov talks to noted Web services expert and open source developer Dan Diephouse about the benefits of using the Atom Pub and Atom standards for business applications, pros and cons of using REST, and upcoming features of the Apache CXF web services stack.
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C# and VB .NET Libraries to Google, YouTube, Facebook, and other Web 2.0 APIs
In a recent post on his blog, Scott Hanselman has compiled a list of .NET libraries useful to interface with some of the Web 2.0 APIs that have proliferated all over the web.
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Article: 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.
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JaBoWS, JBoGS and PoPS are just Stepping Stones
Jeff Schneider writes about the evolution of SOA initiatives.
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Sun Metro and .NET WCF Interoperability
The latest interoperability event (a “plugfest”) at Microsoft’s Redmond campus showed impressive results for interoperability between future releases of Sun’s Metro Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation in .NET 3.5. InfoQ had a chance to talk to Harold Carr, the engineering lead for enterprise web services interoperability at Sun, about the interop results.
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FleXtense Helps Flex Applications Access Web Services
Most of RIA applications connect to the servers to retrieve data. FleXtense is one of the tools to help a RIA, such as a Flex application, to consume web services. FleXtense 2.0 is scheduled to release in April 2008. InfoQ spoke with Murat Cim and Ozkan Yilmaz, the founder/creator of FleXtense, for details on how FleXtense can help RIA development.
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Avoid JaBoWS as the Basis for your Enterprise SOA
Nick Malik declares JaBoWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) are the enemy of Enterprise SOA.
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Article: Addressing Doubts about REST
InfoQ SOA lead editor 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.