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JBoss ESB: a chat with Mark Little
InfoQ had an opportunity to chat with Dr. Mark Little, the director of the JBoss ESB effort. Since the recent acquisition of the Rosetta ESB by JBoss (now a subsidiary of RedHat), the SOA community at InfoQ has been interested in some more details about this project. Here's the story as told by Mark to InfoQ.
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Microsoft, REST, and Robots
Microsoft's merging of REST principles with Web services in a particular application domain may be an exception or another sign of a change in strategy.
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Gartner Web Services Conference Report
A Field Report from the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summitt 2006 shows some mixed trends in SOA and Web Services as well as new products and analysis.
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IBM Donates WSDM Code to Apache
IBM has made a significant code contribution to Apache's WSDM implementation, Muse, and plans to support its evolution with dedicated developers.
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Consumer-Driven Contracts
In an article published on Martin Fowler's web site, Ian Robinson describes a new strategy for evolving contract versions in a community of service providers and consumers.
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SOA Software and WSO2 Bring in VC Money
Draper Fisher leads an $11 Million investment round in SOA Software. Intel Capital, the Venture arm of the Santa Clara chipmaker has invested $4 Million dollars in WSO2, an open source software company.
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Tutorial on Contract-First Web Services
Arjen Poutsma has posted a step-by-step tutorial on contract-first Web service development.
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Rails Powering Online Shopping Evolution
First JadedPixel wows us with Shopify, then this week Dylan Stamat and Jonathan Siegel announce RightCart.com, a new web service that they wrote using Rails in just six weeks. Both apps are making waves in greater web universe.
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SOA Vision, Implementation and Tooling
A review of the state of the SOA Vision, Implementation and Tooling. Includes pointers to recent tutorials, articles and product efforts that define an emerging web services programming style. These range from JBI and ESB styles to Java Frameworks and WS Stacks.
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Behind Tungsten: New Open Source Web Services Platform
WSO2 last week released Tungsten, an Apache license web services appserver platform that supports all the components of the WS-* stack and provides an integrated, tested runtime combining all the key components of the Apache Web Services stack. Tungsten apps can be written as POJOs or via direct programmatic access to XML using AXIOM or the STAX API (The Streaming API for XML).
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Grid Computing Overview
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and high profile blogger, has posted a useful overview of alternatives for Grid Computing, including the Web services-based OSGA.
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SOA "Soft Landing"
Is SOA a bubble? How will new emerging technologies fit in to the SOA picture? Are we due for an SOA bubble bursting, or a "soft landing" for SOA?
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SOA 2.0
Not content with the SOA concept, Gartner and Oracle have created "SOA 2.0" as a label for a more advanced approach to service-orientation.
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SOA Meets Web 2.0 at SOA Executive Forum
InfoWorld is holding an SOA Executive today at which an expert panel discussed Web 2.0 in the context of SOA, how businesses can develop composite apps outside the firewall using technologies typically considered Web 2.0.
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Article: Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability
.NET and Java interop can be made really simple using a REST documentcentric approach. This article compares a REST and SOAP approach to interop as well as the advantages of using HTTP POST vs. GET for REST invocations.