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Simplifying SOA

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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Deployment or Distractment?

June 12, 2008

I was discussing with a fellow java-head the other day about the odds of Java EE life. Us javaneers take quite some pride on what we do, on the frameworks we have, on the solidness as scalability of the Java EE platform, so on and so forth, but still we hate do admit one single [...]

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Service Versioning

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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Of Monkeys And Suits

June 3, 2008

Sara Chipps has published an article regarding the differences between passionate programmers (Natural Programmers or Code Monkeys) and as she calls it, carrer programmers or “Geeks in Suits” although I think the term Geek isn’t appropriate.
I always felt as if I was some sort of freak for not being able to do mundane things such [...]

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