Tips

Tips

Microservices pattern, platforms and frameworks

• In search of the elusive business analyst

  While SOA promises to be business friendly, it still lies in the hands of IT staff and not the new hybrid, tech-savvy business analysts.  Continue Reading

• SOE: Service-oriented economics

  Service consumers and provides need trust and the proper incentives to make a corporate SOA function like a working marketplace.  Continue Reading

• Wanted: VP of SOA

  Jason Bloomberg presents the ZapThink take on the job description for your new VP of SOA.  Continue Reading

• WSDL 2.0, new messaging for Web services

  Semantic, messaging and bindings changes highlight what's new in WSDL 2.0.  Continue Reading

• SOA as a corporate responsibility

  David Linthicum discusses how corporations are experiencing inefficiencies with enterprise architectures and the benefits of implementing SOA.  Continue Reading

• Astoria: REST Web services extensions from Microsoft

  Microsoft's new Astoria framework targets the creation of REST Web services and provides interfaces with data services and Ajax development.  Continue Reading

• SaaS, composite applications and SOA: Making them work together

  SOA, SaaS and composite applications come from different app dev impulses, but consultant Robert Schneider insists they can be combined effectively at the enterprise level.  Continue Reading

• Using RELAX NG For data integration

  XML Schema proving a difficult fix when it comes to data integration? Perhaps you should take a look at RELAX NG.  Continue Reading

• Seven smart statements about SOA

  SOA management, the SOA business case and the limits of Web services standards are among the topics covered of late by some of the brighter minds in the SOA arena.  Continue Reading

• Who's killing SOA?

  Jason Bloomberg discusses the possible directions that SOA may take now that it has surpassed the "hype" phase.  Continue Reading

• Web services stacks – Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

  Microsoft's Dino Chiesa offers up a look inside Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and its uses as a Web services stack. He also discusses upcoming REST and Ajax support in .NET 3.5.  Continue Reading

• Efficient XML Interchange tackles data verbosity

  Coming out of the work on Binary XML, Efficient XML Interchange compresses the notoriously verbose data format on top of adding processing efficiency.  Continue Reading

• The Axis2 Web services toolkit

  Apache's Axis2 Web services toolkit has built itself on the new AXIOM object model and StAX parsing. This tip looks into its evolution and what it offers for WS-* standards support.  Continue Reading

• Does Microsoft get SOA?

  Microsoft's decision to stand apart from the rest of the SOA crowd has led to questions of whether it is build systems to deliver enterprise-level service-orientation or tools to deliver departmental Web services.  Continue Reading

• XML to DDL imports, synchronizes database schemata

  Ed Tittel discusses xml2ddl, a data integration and management tool for those using one of the supported target databases.  Continue Reading