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A blog by Jason English at iTKO has me bothered. Jason praises an analyst
report from ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg titled Divorcing SOA from Web
Services. Neither iTKO nor ZapThink seem to get the vision behind SOA and Web
services.
The IT industry has a long way to go to serve enterprises and organizations
needing to well manage their efforts through information systems. Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) are entirely appropriate to
build information systems. The vision behind SOA and WS help us a lot and in
different ways.
Here is a slide I have been presenting at various conferences for the past
two years to explain the differences between the SOA vision and the WS
vision.
The vision behind SOA and Web Services comes from ent... (more)
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Rod Johnson of Spring fame has posted The Power of Adoption: Why No Company
is Big Enough to Deny Developers What They Want to talk about two big
software company acquisitions that were announced today. Oracle announced it
is buying BEA. And Sun announced it bought MySQL.
For BEA, I was hoping they would succeed at combining the power of JRockit
with AquaLogic to build s... (more)
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My blog entry elicited a response from Jason at ZapThink. He asked –
more or less - what he doesn't get? I also received a request to help parse
part of the blog.
My blog shows that I'm bothered by two things: using the word Divorce when
talking about SOA and Web Services and iTKO's skeptical position on why they
give away Lisa Web Services.
Jason E's blog entry ... (more)
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Anil Gupta is planning to write a book on SOA test methodology. He recently
asked for feedback on the subject areas and he asked for pointers to blogs
and resources that discuss SOA testing.
Here I what I wrote in response to his question:
Dear Anil: I'm glad to see you are planning to write a book on SOA test
methodology. One is needed very much within the test communit... (more)
This morning I am glad to introduce you to a new set of resources to help
surface scalability and performance issues in Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA.) The SOA Knowledge and Performance Kit is a free open-source resource
to show you what it really takes to build services using today's leading SOA
development platforms.
The Kit delivers an SOA use case design, source code to the imple... (more)