May 2005 - Posts
I've been talking to more and more people over the last few weeks about how the notion of autonomy affects the choices you make when designing a Service Oriented system. I would like to propose two concepts which might help clarify how autonomy benefits
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WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) was submitted to OASIS back in April 2005. This means that it's on its way to becoming a ratified standard. But what may not be aparrent from this innocuous statement is that OASIS also owns the WS-Reliability standard, (created
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According to Datamonitor in their article " IBM mulls WebSphere ESB ", it appears that Big Blue is about to enter the frey and confirm that ESB is a purely proprietary gameplan in which vendors have little/no interest in building a platform that fosters
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John Cavnar Johnson posted an article entitled " Taking up the Turner Challenge or Once more into the breach " where he takes up the challenge I laid out in one of my recent posts on SOA . In my post, I ask (in reference to vendor's claims that they have
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Anne Thomas Manes , Research Director at Burton Group , recently posted an article on her blog discussing the notion of ESB , quoting from one of the recent posts on this subject by yours-truly and Dave Chappell . In this very informative posting, she
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Radovan Janecek (VP of Engineering at Systinet) and I have been trading blogs for a few days now discussing SOA. In his most recent response , he claims that I agree with his definition of SOA ... alas, I don't . What I did agree with was his definition
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Radovan has just posted comments on how he believes SOA to be alive and kicking . Alas your comments about how Systinet provides technology X and Y and how this constitutes the foundation of SOA is PRECISELY the kind of terminology-swashbuckling that
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Can't believe I missed this article until now! Paul Krill from Infoworld has published an article titled " Just what is an ESB, anyway? ", which contains some fascinating commentary from players in this space. What strikes me most about the views expressed
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You might get the feeling from my blog that I'm not a fan of the current SOA and ESB faddism. You'd be right. And I am not alone. Many people have mailed me to concur with my thoughts and musings on this subject. Clemens has also posted his thoughts and
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Th mess around SOA might, juuuuuust might actually get cleared up ... OASIS is forming a technical committee to help define and clarify what an SOA is by defining a SOA Reference Model ! Maybe we can end the SOA madness and get back to what's important
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Jim Johnson has posted a great article on how to use Longhorn's Kernel Mode Transactions and Transacted File System with System.Transactions in .NET Frameworks 2.0. Great stuff! :)
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Something is really troubling me. You may have noticed that I have been pondering the notions of SOA and, more recently, ESB and that I have some issues with the latter. More concerning even that the notion of companies building their enterprises on top
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I followed a few of the referrals from commentators on my second post about ESB's and read some interesting posts over on LooselyCoupled via Radovan Janecek which made it clear that I am not alone in my concerns about ESBs. Phew! :)
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