Is ESB The Mediation Infrastructure of Web Services Platform?
Lori MacVitte from F5 had a few comments about my post on using XML appliances in ESB capacity. While I don't completely agree with some of her specific points about what ESB capabilities are missing...
View ArticleWill JAX-WS Become the Primary Mechanism for Invoking RESTful Services?
Developers working with REST and XML/HTTP services have traditionally used light-weight APIs, such as java.net classes or Apache HttpClient. Web services APIs provided by JAX-RPC were SOAP and...
View ArticleSCA and JBI Mean Nothing for SOA?
There is an interesting and somewhat controversial interview with ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg where he claims that SCA and JBI are just going to "muddy the waters" as opposed to provide real help to...
View ArticleComparison of SOA Suites
Several SOA vendors are trying to put together comprehensive suites of SOA products that in theory should be capable of addressing all aspects of SOA, including governance, integration, business...
View ArticleXML Appliances Begin Supporting Java
Layer7 announced that its appliances will support Java-based custom assertions. Details are sketchy at this point but apparently Layer7 will provide a proprietary SDK for developing assertions. This...
View ArticleUsing Maven Repository as Web Services Registry
A Web services registry is arguably one of the most important components of SOA. The registry provides a single source of information about all services in an enterprise. There are a number of...
View ArticleImprove Your Application Performance with XML Appliance
XML appliances are capable of extremely fast XML parsing and transformation (sometimes the term "wire-speed" is used). The speed is achieved by using hardware acceleration, specially written XML...
View ArticleIs The End of SOAP Dominance Nearing?
SOAP-based services currently dominate the enterprise landscape. Main reasons this are: SOAP tight coupling with WSDL. Until recently, SOAP was the only supported WSDL binding. WSDL, with all of its...
View ArticleYou Ain’t Gonna Need ESB
Bobby Wolf posted a great article about a wide-spread problem plaguing many SOA implementations: over-engineering of SOA infrastructure, meaning that people rollout products that are not particularly...
View ArticleWill Recession Provide a Boost to SOA?
There is no doubt that IT budgets will be cut next year. The size of the cut is hard to predict, but I think that it could exceed the Gartner’s forecast. This, however, could finally give a shot in...
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