August 25, 2009
A while ago I’ve posted a little article after watching a ThoughtWorker giving a presentation on InfoQ stating that no one needs an ESB, and that if you do need one, use squid.
Althought it is a very extreme point of view, it is definetly a valid one. Web Services, SOAP and WS-* specifications were all [...]
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April 1, 2009
For all those that ignored security as a major concern of SOA (me included), here’s an excerpt from the soapUI welcome screen today:
Important Notice
Warning! Do not use soapUI to withdraw money!
Eviware software has been alerted to users using soapUI to withdraw large sums of money from the European National Bank.
So far millions of Euro [...]
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March 5, 2009
Yes we all do know by now that the world is undergoing one of the worst financial crisis in capitalism history. Jobs are being cut, work hours and salaries have been reduced, and most importantly, companies are being pushed into making cost cuts and seeking new business partners in order to become more efficient and [...]
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September 14, 2008
As a proponent of both Service Oriented Architecture and Agile methods, I’ve always cringed when I see anything that says “lock down your service interfaces early on”, “an enterprise wide analysis should be done to achieve a successful SOA implementation” yada yada.
I’ve read this book by Thomas Erl, and cringed over what he called the [...]
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June 24, 2008
We’ve seen a lot of buzz around the SOA acronym lately. Service Oriented Architectures are one of the hottest topics in IT today, and for a series of reasons. Some of them are legitimate, and others not quite.
More and more vendors strive to gain space into the SOA Infrastructure market. They push you ESBs, they [...]
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June 8, 2008
It has always seemed to me that the weakest link in the SOA chain is how to version services and ensure that you don’t break clients/consumers when updating the WSDL interface. Up to now, I have been keeping the old service up, and creating a new copy of the service, running on the new interface [...]
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May 28, 2008
I have been fiddling around with the idea of skipping the server side UI model completely for buildling web apps for a year. With the advance and acceptance of client-side toolkits such as Dojo, Prototype + script.aculo.us, Yahoo Widgets, extJS, jQuery etc, client-side rich widgets are becoming increasingly popular and growing in number.
JavaScript is also [...]
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May 27, 2008
Hello all, I am Alex M. Reis, currently the Enterprise Architect for Brasil & Movimento S.A. The company’s known through its trademark Sundown® and crafts Bikes and Motorcycles for the brazilian market.
My passion is writing software, but not only that. I have a passion for writing good software, that’s easy to mantain and understand. I [...]
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