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CRUD is bad for REST

In one of my previous posts (Rest: good, bad and ugly), I made a passing comment, about how I think using CRUD in RESTful service  is a bad practice. I...

0 replies - 573 views - 06/30/09 by arnonrgo in News

SOA Pattern of the Week (#7): Policy Centralization

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the seventh SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

1 replies - 265 views - 06/29/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Declarative Hyperlinking in RESTEasy

REST APIs must be hypertext driven. That requirement has quite a few implications on how one defines a RESTful interface which in turn has quite a few...

3 replies - 1248 views - 06/23/09 by Solomon in News

The Reason SOA Isn’t Delivering Sustainable Software

Wow, to read the positive reviews of SOA and what it’s doing for the IT industry, one would be likely to believe that there’s serious transformation...

0 replies - 666 views - 06/22/09 by jpmorgenthal in News

Transactions are bad for REST

Yesterday I read an interesting paper called “RETRO: A RESTful Transaction Mode”. On the good side, I have to say, it is one of the best RESTful...

0 replies - 558 views - 06/17/09 by arnonrgo in News

What Drives SOA, Business or IT?

Much like the chicken and egg dilemma, in the SOA industry, there is often a debate over which should come first -- business needs or technology needs. That...

0 replies - 556 views - 06/16/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

A Content Management Migration Framework for SCA

Migration tools are typically hampered by issues related to their complexity, slow processing and inability to meet custom migration requirements. In many...

1 replies - 339 views - 06/10/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Pragmatic Web Services With Apache CXF

Apache CXF [1] is an open-source Java-based framework whose goal is to help users develop standard-based, interoperable and robust web services.

2 replies - 3555 views - 06/08/09 by sergey_beryozkin in Articles

WCF defaults stifles loose coupling

This is another post (<Rant>) about WCF default behavior and how it can make the life of developers miserable ( you can also check out “WCF defaults...

1 replies - 385 views - 06/08/09 by arnonrgo in News

Building Reusable Services

The ability to reuse services is one of the principal benefits for adopting SOA in an enterprise. This statement will remain a promise for your development...

1 replies - 699 views - 06/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Tech Chat: CTO Mark Little on EAP 5, RESTful SOA, and Future Directions for JBoss

DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Mark Little, newly appointed CTO of the JBoss division of Red Hat. In this interview, Mark provides an update on...

0 replies - 1882 views - 06/01/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

The web vs. the fallacies of distributed computing

I recently read a post by  Tim Bray where he states that building on web technologies let you get away with believing some of the fallacies of distributed...

1 replies - 629 views - 06/01/09 by arnonrgo in News

Do we have an Active SOA Service?

Michael Poulin @ ebizq doesn’t like the Active Service pattern I suggest you read his post first but in a nutshell Michael sees two possible ways to...

1 replies - 458 views - 05/29/09 by arnonrgo in News

SOA is Dead, No Wait, It’s Alive, Wait, No, It’s, It’s…Perhaps It’s Who’s Adopted SOA, Not What Has Been Adopted

I'm currently reading “Influencers”, in which the authors make a great point that with innovation, the messenger is as important as the message. There’s...

1 replies - 772 views - 05/28/09 by jpmorgenthal in News

SOA Pattern of the Week (#6): Canonical Schema

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the fourth SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

0 replies - 703 views - 05/27/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles