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Event Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture
Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is starting to emerge as a good and viable option to build better SOAs. David Luckham recently published a 2 part paper supporting this claim and InfoQ published an article on BI & SOA demonstrating it as well.
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Article: Bridging the gap between BI and SOA
Business intelligence (BI) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have conflicting principles and needs. "Bridging the gap between BI & SOA" demonstrates how to reconcile the differences
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The REST versus WS-* war is over!
David Chappell announces that the REST versus WS-* war is over and nobody won: a truce was declared and this is an example of 'using the right tool for the right job'.
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WSDL 2.0 approved as an official W3C Recommendation
WSDL 2.0 has finally been approved as an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation on June 27 2007. The Web Services Description Working Group has been working on the standards for more than 6 years. The recommendation was due on the 31st of December 2006 but has received an extension to the 30th of June this year.
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WS-BPEL4People on its way to OASIS
A group of several vendors suggests a new WS-* spec that goes by the interesting name "WS-BPEL4People". Compared to WS-BPEL which deals with automated business processes, the WS-BPEL4People spec, which has been under works for nearly two years now, aims to add human workflow capabilities to SOA in general and to the recently approved WS-BPEL 2.0 spec specifically.
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Sun Announces Metro
Sun Microsystems has announced Metro, the new name for the JAX-WS RI and Project Tango.
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APP vs. Web3S: the Quest for a RESTful Protocol
In contrast to Google, who base their public RESTful services on the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Microsoft has found the need to go down a different route and has introduced Web3S.
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Applying REST Principles to Complex Applications
In a blog post, REST expert Joe Gregorio shows how to apply REST principles to complex applications, using the Apache DayTrader Benchmark, which requires reliable delivery of orders, as an example.
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SOA Research In Academia Increasingly Industry Focused
If this years European Young Researchers workshop on Service Oriented Computing is anything to go by then academic research is much more heavily influenced by industry directions than ever before. Although not always the best of partners, industry and academia can learn from one another. But who is driving the innovation: academic research or industrial pragmatism?
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Apache Synapse 1.0 and WSO2 ESB 1.0 Released
<p></p> <p>The open source mediation platform Synapse 1.0 has been released, as well as a commercial ESB product which based on it. InfoQ spoke to WSO2's CTO and Synapse committer Paul Fremantle, about the details.</p>
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Apache Solr: Lucene Based Server Provides Highly Scalable Enterprise Search
Apache Solr is a Lucene-based enterprise search server that delivers out-of-the-box indexing and query capabilities in a portable war file. Users interact with Solr via an HTTP interface, submitting content for indexing and making queries using XML documents and HTTP GET parameters.
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Google GData/Atom Publishing Protocol too limited for Microsoft
Dara Obasanjo writes about the limitations of the Google Data API (Google's implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol with some extensions) as a general purpose protocol and explains why Microsoft will not support or standardize on GData.
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W3C Workshop on Web of Services Report
The W3C has released a report about the results of the Workshop on the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, which was held in February.
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BEA and Oracle incorporate Sun's Project Tango
Both Oracle and BEA have incorporated Sun's Web Services stack, Project Tango. Sun are keen to publicize the fact that it is being worked on in open source. Do either of these factors make Tango a force to be reckoned with or will this be another example of Sun trailing behind the pack?
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Debate: Does REST Need a Description Language?
Following up on the debate of REST vs. WS-* discussed here last week, it is interesting to note a debate about "contracts" for RESTful services that has been picking up pace over the last few days.