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BEA Announces WebLogic 9.2 Platform
BEA has announced the completion and delivery of WebLogic Platform 9.2 (Server, Portal, and Integration) that are designed to provide a unified foundation for BEA's SOA 360 platform. Kodo 4.1, Workshop, and Workshop Studio also had new releases. InfoQ summarized the new features in WL Server and Portal.
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InfoQ Article: Java, .NET, but why together?
The Java vs. NET war is over. In this article, Ted Neward looks at how we can leverage the strengths of each together, such as using Microsoft Office to act as a "rich client" to a Java middle-tier service, or building a Windows Presentation Foundation GUI on top of Java POJOs, or even how to execute Java Enterprise/J2EE functionality from within a Windows Workflow host.
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InfoQ Book: Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies
In the lastest book in the InfoQ series, Capgemini CTO and SOA standards body member Steve Jones argues that for SOA to succeed we must move our thoughts away from the implementation technologies and towards the "what" of the business. Steve explains how to construct an overall business service architecture.
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InfoQ Article: An Introduction to WS-Reliable Messaging
Web Services Reliable Messaging 1.1 is available as a new draft version of the OASIS specification originally released by Microsoft, IBM, BEA and others. WS-RM ensures messages can be delivered reliable over unreliable protocols such as HTTP. Paul Fremantle, co-chair of the OASIS technical committee, provides an introduction.
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Java SOAP Framework XFire 1.2 Released
XFire, the high performance Java SOAP framework from Codehaus has released version 1.2, the last version before the project merges with Celtix into Apache CeltiXfire. XFire includes such features as Spring integration, JBI support, and pluggable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans. Improvements since version 1.1 include JiBX data binding, Aegis binding inheritance, and HTTP GZIP.
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InfoQ Article - Give it a REST: Mark Baker on Web Services
InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov talks to REST evangelist Mark Baker about REST principles, its benefits, and the relationship to Web services.
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Top Ten Web Service "Issues"
What are your top ten Web service issues and advice? Andre Tost, Soccer fan and IBM Senior Technical Staff Member writes a bloglike article articulating the top ten issues he and his customers have with Web Services.
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WS-MetadataExchange 1.1 Published
WS-MetadataExchange, the Web service standard that specifies how information about a service's interface, policy, and other metadata can be retrieved at runtime, has been updated to version 1.1.
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REST vs SOAP Roll Call
Stefan Tilkov (ed note: SOA Editor on InfoQ) posts on his blog lists of proponents of REST style vs the list of those supporting a more WS/SOAP style of SOA. The lists are helpful to those seeking to understand the stylistic differences betweeen these strategies and how to leverage each appropriately.
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REST on Rails: An Enterprise Developer's Overview
Bruce Tate presents an enterprise-level introduction to the use of Representational State Transfer (REST) in the Ruby on Rails framework.
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Service Component Architecture Forges Ahead
Nine new companies have announced participation in the Service Component Architecture project and have announced a new web site at OSOA.org. Leaders of the SCA project include BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP AG and Sun Microsystems.
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Six Ruby Presentations (with slides) from European Ruby Meeting Now Online
The audio and slides of six presentations made at a recent Ruby on Rails meeting, hosted by Greenpeace in Amsterdam, have just been made available. Topics include integration with legacy Java apps, CMS development, and Unicode.
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Contracts, Expectations, Agreements and Processes
Contract first development isn't a new idea, but has some followers in the SOA domain. Recently, the W3C has extended the WSDL to include semantic annotations, enriching the basic contract with more metadata. Contracts are also explored in more detail in the development of processes by Steve Jones using tools like Eclipse and NetBeans.
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InfoQ Article: Secure and Reliable Web Services
Web Services can become the single standard for all exchange of structured data. After waiting over 5 years, two important Web Services specifications have finally been endorsed: WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging. Will these specifications allow the adoption of web services as a standard for all communication within and between organizations?
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New Webcast on WCF contracts
Michele Leroux Bustamante (das Blonde) has recorded a new webcast on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) contracts for the MSDN Architecture Webcasts series. WCF services are composed of three basic elements: addresses, bindings, and contracts, which describe the service in a standard, cross-platform way.