Loosely Coupled Thinking

Hammer Time

The apparent backlash (if you can call it that) against WS-BPEL 2.0 has begun. I knew things were going to get interesting when I heard Dave Linthicum's SOA Podcast mention BPEL getting " hammered " by both the press and the blogosphere. There are a variety Read More...

A Japanese version of the WS-BPEL spec

Volunteers needed to help develop a Japanese version of the BPEL spec Read More...

Are you using or planning to use BPEL?

SOA Bitpipe has revived their BPEL poll. The results are interesting: Apparently 25% of those polled are currently using BPEL. Are these production systems or prototypes? Given the state of the spec I'd be a bit leery about deploying BPEL in a production Read More...

David Chappell nails it (again!)

Despite the title of his article, David paints a compelling picture for the adoption of abstract BPEL. I'm in 100% agreement with him on this one. Read More...

More Thoughts on SOA and the SO Design Tenets

SOA is an architectural approach to creating systems built from autonomous services. With SOA, integration becomes forethought rather than afterthought - the end solution is likely to be composed of services developed in different programming languages, Read More...

Principles of Interoperability

I gave a rather short webcast on 2/3/2004 on some fundamental principles of interoperability, regardless of platform or technology. You can see the webcast here . Note that I say this is a rather short webcast - this was really my fault. I was having Read More...

Thinking about SOA (again)

Eventually we’ll stop talking about SOA and go back to talking about Architecture. When we stop talking about SOA it will finally become a reality (who talks about 3-tier architectures anymore?). Thanks to Harry for this one! SOAs are like snowflakes Read More...

SDWest 2005

I just got accepted to speak at SD West 2005. I plan to leverage some of the architectural theme work I am doing for my presentation. Here is the abstract: "Over the past year several specifications and standards activities have emerged to address the Read More...

What's changed in WS-I Basic Profile 1.1?

Sherman Mohler of Cisco's Learning Institute completed a comparison of WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 with WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 . I've included a copy of the document below for your enjoyment. New Requirements as of WS-I 1.1 R9980 - An ENVELOPE MUST conform Read More...