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Debate: Is SOA Dead?
Burton Group's Anne Thomas Manes wrote an obituary for SOA, saying SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. InfoQ has collected industry reactions.
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Web Services Test Forum Announced
IBM, Oracle, Red Hat and others have just announced the formation of the Web Services Test Forum, a venue for continuous testing of interoperability for heterogeneous Web Services implementations as well as a flexible way for vendors and customers to define the interoperability scenarios that are important for them. But how does this relate to WS-I and why has Microsoft not signed up to it yet?
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Reference Ontology for Semantic Service Oriented Architectures
Last month, OASIS published a committee draft of Reference Ontology for Semantic Service Oriented Architectures - an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and relationships between them within a Semantically-enabled Service-Oriented environment.
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Gartner Releases Note On How To Put The "Web" Back In "Web Services"
Nick Gall shares his insights and comments on the Gartner WOA report which he co-authored.
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Microsoft ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP
With the wealth of new features and support for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009, Microsoft ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP, released last week, strengthens company’s position in the ESB market.
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WS-Resource Access Activity Begun At W3C
W3C announces that WS-Eventing, WS-Transfer and others are now going to be standardized through a new working group.
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Presentation: Mark Little's "Diary of a Fence Sitting SOA Geek"
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London 2008, Mark Little explains the history of SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based web services and RESTful HTTP and shows that both approaches have their roles to play in any good architect's toolkit. He elaborates on where possible convergence could, or should, occur within the industry.
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C# Library for Amazon S3 Available on CodePlex
Affirma Consulting has developed a C# library which can be used to access Amazon's S3 services from a .NET application. The library, including examples, has been released on CodePlex.
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Article: Webber, Parastatidis and Robinson on "How to GET a Cup of Coffee"
In a new article, Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson show how to drive an application's flow through the use of hypermedia in a RESTful application, using the well-known example from Gregor Hohpe's "Starbucks does not use Two-Phase-Commit" to illustrate how the Web's concepts can be used for integration purposes.
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WCF and Information Disclosure Threats
Anil John writes about Information Disclosure Threats and Web Services. In his article he delves into the details of how potential attackers use to prepare their attacks and how some common web service practices ‘support’ these threats.
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JSR 311 Final: Java API for RESTful Web Services
After a little more than one and a half years, the Java platform gets its own API for building RESTful web services: JAX-RS, JSR 311. InfoQ had a chance to talk to spec leads Marc Hadley and Paul Sandoz.
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Interview: Jeff Barr Discusses Amazon Web Services
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how the different Amazon services interact within an application, the origins of AWS, SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, globalization of the AWS cloud, the March AWS outage, SimpleDB Stored Procedures and converting between AMIs and VMWare.
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Enterprise Web Conf: WOI, REST, and Mashups in New York Oct 28 & London Oct 30
InfoQ and ProgrammableWeb.com have teamed up to bring you a one-day conference covering the emerging theory and practices behind RESTful SOA and Enterprise Mashups, called the 'Enterprise Web'. The event covers the emerging trends of web oriented integration/architecture, web as a platform, mashups, REST, and more.
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SOA Adopting WOA?
Dion Hinchcliffe writes about how SOA and WOA are actually more complimentary than competitive. According to Dion, adopting a WOA-based approach offers a lower entry barrier to developers as well as advantages over more traditional approaches to SOA. Dion believes that WOA is not synonymous with REST and that much of the anti-WOA debate is due to SOA vendors and pundits "protecting their turf".
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Overview of the Appcelerator RIA Platform
In this post, InfoQ discusses the Appcelerator platform with Matt Quinlan, Vice President of Community Development at Appcelerator. Quinlan highlights the strengths of Appcelerator and some of its common uses.