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Creating a RESTful API with WCF
Aaron Sloman and Haider Sabri gave a talk about "Creating a RESTful API with WCF" at MIX08 introducing a sample REST application called RESTChess.
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Don't Let Consumers and Service Providers Communicate Directly
Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink discusses why most integration-developers aren't "doing" SOA and why this is bad for Service Oriented Architecture. He discusses the problem and illustrates some straightforward approaches to alleviate it, which don't always require significant investments in new infrastructure.
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Microsoft Releases Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition
Microsoft released last week WSSF - Modeling Edition, a major release of the Web Service Software Factory. Don Smith, product manager in the Pattern & Practices team, unveiled an ambitious road map for this factory which is now fully integration the DSL vision set forth by Steve Cook's team.
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Higgins 1.0: Identity Management Solutions from the Eclipse Foundation
Identity management for networked and distributed applications continues to present several unique challenges for users and developers. Higgins is a suite of identity management solutions from the Eclipse foundation, created with the intent of simplifying and adding consistency to online authentication.
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Relax-WS: Trying To Make WSDL Easier To Use?
The Relax-WS project has been building on Relax-NG Compact Syntax to provide a simpler way of defining WSDL that is more natural for programmers and does not lose any metadata in the resulting translation.
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Article: Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services
Trent Swanson walks through accessing SharePoint Web Services from both Java and .NET.
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Interview: Sanjiva Weerawarana on Web Services, REST and Open Source SOA Tools
In this interview, Stefan Tilkov talks to Sanjiva Weerawarana about web services and REST, about core standards that are essential for web services standards, open source SOA tooling, scripting languages and web services, and the strategy of WSO2 in providing open source middleware.
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The Apache Incubator CXF team announced the availability of the 2.0.4 release
CXF is a fully featured Open Source Web Services Framework which people claim is easy to use and is industrial strength. CXF is also embeddable and people have used it often in combination with Spring. CXF is the combination of the Celtix and XFire communities coming together at Apache.
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Presentation: Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA"
In one of the most entertaining presentations on the topic ever, Dr. Jim Webber debunks myths about the mainstream ESB concept and explains how a lightweight approach can yield real benefits without giving in to vendor pressure. Jim claims that an ESB often ends up being just a thin veneer on an existing mess, and how an approach that doesn't put intelligence into the network is superior.
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Is XMPP the Future of Cloud Services?
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) has proven itself as a winner for instant messaging, but could it also be the protocol of choice for service integration in the future?
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Article: Mark Baker on 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 what the hypermedia constraints means in practice and why it is essential to RESTful design.
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Article: Building Asynchronous Services With SCA
In an InfoQ exclusive article, Mike Edwards discusses how to create asynchronous services within the Service Component Architecture.
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Article: An Introduction to NetKernel
Last month the NetKernel project released version 3.3 which added an Optimized HTTP Transport Layer, Enhanced Dynamic Language Support, and Reorganized/Re-written Documentation. The documentation enhancements were "to make the concepts of resource-oriented computing easier for adopters". Continuing with that theme InfoQ is proud to present a new article, An Introduction to NetKernel.
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Should developers write their own transaction coordination logic?
In a recent discussion Mark Little and Greg Pavlik discuss whether transaction coordinators and transaction protocols are necessary in the context of widely distributed units of work. Isn't the knowledge of state alignment patterns enough?
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BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask Head To OASIS
John Evdemon, co-chair of the WS-BPEL technical committee, has announced that BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask are going to OASIS. Adding a standard approach to human interaction support to WS-BPEL is something many people have been asking for and this could be the solution.