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Presentation: Building Smart Windows Applications
In this demo driven presentation, Daniel Moth explores the new features of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to create rich Windows clients. There are many opportunities for creating a rich application that runs client-side capitalizes on server-side investments.
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SOAP Stack an Embarrassing Failure?
The debate over REST vs. SOAP is really an age-old one. However it fired up again over a recent remark by XML guru Tim Bray that SOAP stack is an embarrassing failure.
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Oracle Unveils ts SOA Product Strategy
After the Oracle acquisition of BEA it was not clear how Oracle was going to integrate often competing SOA products in its and BEA’s portfolio. In his presentation last month David Shaffer, VP Product Managemen for, Oracle Integration, described the Oracle-BEA product Strategy and Roadmap for SOA, BPM, Governance and Events.
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Improving Web Service Security: Guidance for WCF
Microsoft patterns and practices group has released a WCF Security Guide. The 689 pages compendium offers a general introduction to Web Service security fundamentals as well as in-depth knowledge about several security threads and appropriate counter-measures.
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Microsoft announces release of “Zermatt” Identity Framework
Microsoft released a beta of “Zermatt”, an identity framework for developers using the .Net framework. The framework helps developers build claims-aware applications to address application security requirements using a simplified application access model.
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Google Introduces Binary Encoding Format: Protocol Buffers
Google caused a stir by releasing Protocol Buffers, a binary serialization format. We take a look at what exactly Protocol Buffers are and what alternatives are available in ASN.1 or Facebook's Thrift.
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Introducing InfoSphere Mashup Hub from IBM
A mashup is a web application that combines data/functionality from more than one source into a single integrated application. Mashup’s popularity stems from the emphasis on interactive user participation. IBM InfoSphere MashupHub is a new lightweight information management environment for IT and business professionals who wish to use and/or share information for use in mashups.
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UDDI and the Framework for Web Services Implementation Technical Committees close
OASIS announces that the UDDI and FWSI technical committees have closed and completed their work.
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Opinion: When Designing Your SOA - Taste is Everything
Dan Creswell claims that "taste is everything" when it comes to putting together the pieces that make a good SOA. Dan says that picking the technology stack for distributed services, how you layer the service "units", etc, are a matter of taste as well as consideration of a number of guidelines, as opposed to just taking a cookie cutter approach to SOA as some seem to claim is possible.
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Interview: Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services, and REST
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and loosely coupled systems, and the possibility of an end to the Web services vs. REST debate.
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Loose Coupling in SOA Defined
In the debate on whether cohesion is important for SOA, Carlos Perez expressed his views on coupling in software construction, and how it has evolved in the context of an SOA. He starts out with Bertrand Meyer's principles of modularity and extends it to his own set of principles for service orientation.
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Whoa There: SOA, SOA 2.0, ROA, WOA. An Acronym Too Far?
With SOA 2.0 dead and the REST vs SOA vs Web Services debates simmering less fiercely of late, some in the industry have started to talk about Web Oriented Architecture (WOA). But is this different to anything that already exists (e.g., REST)? If so, why and how does it help developers and deployers? Burton Group's Anne Thomas Manes believes it is a term too far and adds nothing to the debate.
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Presentation by Martin Fowler and Jim Webber: "Does My Bus Look Big in This?"
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London 2008, ThoughtWorks' Chief Scientist Martin Fowler and Global Head of Architecture Jim Webber share their views of the typical corporate ESB, which in their opinion has grown too fat for its own good. Martin and Jim suggest the Web's architecture as a possible and more light-weight alternative, in line with their preference for agile approaches.
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Windows Communication Foundation: Application Deployment Scenarios
Microsoft has just published an excellent overview of WCF capabilities and deployment strategies for 5 most common SOA scenarios including Enterprise Web services, Web 2.0 services, intranet applications, queued messaging and Workflow services.
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Will Sun Add SCA Integration to the Java EE Specification?
While in the past, the Java community debated over backing SCA or JBI, there are some signs that both of them might be formally incorporated into Java EE 6.