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Interview: BT's Chief WS Architect Paul Downey on "Loving the Web"
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks Paul Downey, Chief Web Services Architect for BT, about Web services standards, Paul's work in the XML Databinding working group, WS-* vs. REST, and cool stuff BT offers to developers.
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MindTouch Dream: REST SDK & Lightweight Standalone Server
MindTouch offers a programming library and standalone server for developing and publishing RESTful web services. Dream "Denim" 1.4.1 has been released last week.
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SOAP/TCP Transport for WCF
Noemax releases a SOAP/TCP transport implementation for WCF, which makes use of the Fast Infoset in order to improve performance and interoperability of WCF services.
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Article: Open Source WS Stacks for Java - Design Goals and Philosophy
InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov questioned lead developers of Apache Axis2, Apache CXF, Spring Web Services, JBossWS and and Sun’s Metro about their design goals, their approach towards Java and Web services standards, data binding, accessing XML, interoperability, REST support, and framework maturity. The results revealed many similarities and some noteworthy differences.
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David Pallmann’s WCF Tips
David Pallmann has published a series of WCF Tips. The tips are assembled in terms of design patterns, which are grouped by aspects of developing WCF providers and consumers.
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Behind Microsoft's Astoria REST Framework
In Microsoft's Architecture Journal issue 13, Pablo Castro talked about several key features of the Microsoft’s REST Framework – Astoria.
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WS-Addressing Working Group Closes
After over 3 years of effort in W3C, the WS-Addressing Working Group has closed down. Although there have been a few complaints about WS-A over the years, most people seem to agree it has been a good thing for WS-*.
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Interview: Dino Chiesa on Microsoft's SOA Strategy
InfoQ talked to Dino Chiesa, Director of Marketing for .Net in the Connected Systems Division to better understand what's coming in .Net 3.5 for SOA, Microsoft's SOA strategy and how customers were using WCF.
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Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) Becomes a W3C Recommendation
The Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) reached recommendation status on August 28 2007, turning it into a "W3C Standard".
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Presentation: Scott Davis on Real World Web Services
In this presentation, recorded at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples. While the buzzword density leaves nothing to be desired, the presentation contains a very accessible introduction to the core Web services standards.
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Article: "Code First" Web Services Reconsidered
In a new InfoQ article, Dennis Sosnoski questions the conventional wisdom that a contract-first approach to web services development, i.e. starting from WSDL, is superior to starting from code. He shows how the JiBX framework can be used to practice start-from-code development without incurring the disadvantages, specifically without coupling implementation and interface too tightly.
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Interview: Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA"
In this InfoQ interview, recorded at QCon London, Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks SOA practice leader talks to Stefan Tilkov about Guerilla SOA, a lightweight approach to SOA that does not rely on big middleware products, a message-oriented architectural style called MEST and its differences to REST, and the SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL).
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Retire Microsoft's Four SOA tenets?
Microsoft's Harry Pierson (a.k.a. DevHawk) suggest that Microsoft's own 4 tenets for SOA should be retired because, well, they are, in Harry's opinion, useless - at least they are not useful anymore.
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Perl/.NET Interoperability Using Web Services
Web services were supposed to enable cross-application integration regardless of the underlying platform or language. While the promise is still there, today we still need tricks to make it work.
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Microsoft announces the CTP3 of the ESB Guidance
Microsoft is releasing a new drop of its ESB Guidance (CTP3). The ESB guidance is a framework that runs on top of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and leverages WCF to provide ESB functionality (routing, transformation, validation,...).