Progress Software Announces Availability of Sonic ESB 7.6
New Sonic ESB Release Expands Functionality with Improved SOA Management and Enhanced BPEL Instrumentation
Parasoft Invests in Embedded Systems Quality Group
Parasoft launches new embedded division, Parasoft Embedded, to tackle quality in the embedded market with innovative solutions and services
XML 2.0
Arguably the most important upgrade to Xml 2.0 is that it no longer need custom schema definitions. From now on all validations will be done through direct links to Xml.Com .
What is a Token?
In the WS-* security world, "Token" is really just a another name the security geniuses decided to use for "Handy package for all sorts of security stuff". The most popular type of token is the SAML (just say "samel") token. If the ladies and gentlemen designing and writing security platform infrastructure and frameworks are doing a good job you might want to know about the existence of such a thing, but otherwise be blissfully ignorant of all the gory details.
Parasoft Announces Support for the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 8583
Parasoft’s SOA quality solution now reduces software risks to the banking and payment card industry
JBossWorld recap
I think one of the highlights for me was my presentation on JBoss Transactions. I've done presentations on JBossTS for so long (going back decades if you count Arjuna), that I can usually predict the audience: a select number of die-hard transaction users who already "get it" and want to talk shop. Not this time. The room was packed
CORBA Guru Steve Vinoski on REST, Web Services, and Erlang
In this interview, recorded at QCon San Francisco 2007, CORBA Guru Steve Vinoski talks to Stefan Tilkov about his appreciation for REST, occasions when he would still use CORBA and the role of description languages for distributed systems.
What Is WOA? It's The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
In contrast, the vast living laboratory of the Web has provided a singularly different answer, than has a fundamentally different focus though it remains a close cousin to traditional SOA. This much more Web-oriented approach is something that many have called Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) and is based on the immense tensile strength of the World Wide Web itself and its underlying architectural fundamentals.
Demystifying RESTful Data Coupling
Is REST’s approach to dealing with data coupling some sort of magic? Of course not.
What is a reusable Service?
SOA architectural patterns as Mediation, Canonical Data Domain Model, Categorization of services in different specialized layers (Presentation Services, Shared Business Services, Information Access Services...) and Web Services versioning are important best practices.