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Sun technologist: SOAP stack a 'failure'

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/24/Sun-technologist-SOAP-stack-a-failure_1.html

InfoWorld, Paul Krill, July 24, 2008: The SOAP stack for Web services was branded a failure this week by Tim Bray, a Sun Microsystems technologist and co-inventor of XML, who hailed the REST (Representational State Transfer) mechanism as a SOAP alternative. "The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days," said Bray, who is Sun director of Web technologies, in an interview Wednesday afternoon at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore. "REST does what [the SOAP stack] was trying to do in a much more viable, elegant, cheap, affordable way except that we've got no tooling around it yet."
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BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask to OASIS

http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/01/08/bpel4people-and-ws-humantask-to-oasis.aspx

The BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specs are headed to OASIS, resulting in a new BPEL4People Technical Committee (TC) - expect to see an announcement and call for participation soon. The TC will focus on defining human interactions (human tasks) as part of a WS-BPEL process, enabling these definitions to be exposed as web services.
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RESTful Web services and their Ajax-based clients

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restajax/index.html

Shailesh K. Mishra of IBM, 05 Jul 2007: A RESTful Web service is a Web service built using the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. This article demonstrates one way to write RESTful Web services, using a simple proxy servlet and their Asynchronous XML JavaScript (Ajax)-based clients.
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Web Services Interoperability Technology

http://java.sun.com/webservices/interop/

Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) is an open-source implementation of next generation Web services technologies that deliver interoperability between Java EE and .Net to help you build, deploy, and maintain Composite Applications for your Service Oriented Architecture. Built upon JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services), this implementation will be made available as the "Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT)" and is focused on four main categories: Messaging, Metadata, Security, and Quality-of-Service (QoS).
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Service Versioning For SOA

http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/250503.htm

(Found in a blog, "Versioning is as inevitable as security.") SOA development practice isn't much different from other software development practices except for design and maintenance. Multiple self-containing and aggregated services that interact with others have their own lifecycle and evolution. The loosely coupling model of SOA services significantly simplifies design but creates additional difficulties in maintenance, especially in the interoperability of different service versions
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4 out of 10 stars

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SOA Focus - Web Services Security in Java EE

http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/250237.htm

Here you'll get thehands-on knowledge of Web Services security in Java EE that we acquired when adding security support to OptimalJ-generated SOA applications. It's based on the J2EE 1.4 specification itself as well as on what is actually supported and it works in three major J2EE 1.4 application servers - JBoss 4.0.4, WebSphere 6.0.2.x, and WebLogic 9.1. You'll also learn about the new mandatory security features available to Web Service endpoints in Java EE 5.0.
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Fast Infoset for Web services

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1198330,00.html?track=NL-305&ad=559416&ad=558313&ASRC=EM_TNL_348607&uid=521899&asrc=EM_TNL_387414&uid=4830881

Anybody who wrote communication programs in the old days of slow modems and expensive long lines before the Internet probably had the same reaction on first seeing XML. "What a wasteful format!" Admittedly it is hard to give up those give up those old byte-saving instincts to gain the advantages of XML. Transmitting 5000 bytes of data of which perhaps 500 are the real content and the rest horribly repetitive seems to go against the grain. The "Fast Infoset" standardization is an attempt create a compact encoding method that can transmit an XML Information Set with significant saving of bandwidth and processing power.
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Windows Workflow Foundation for Web services

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1204115,00.html?track=NL-305&ad=559416&asrc=EM_TNL_387411&uid=4830881

Workflows lend themselves to the granular nature of services. In other words, services fulfill a very small unit of work in favor of being reusable for many different scenarios, this in turn creates the possibility of stitching together an innumerable number of outcomes as workflows, so at a very simplistic level a workflow is nothing more than a series of services glued together to fulfill a particular business process. In the very specific case of services, many approaches have emerged to solve this workflow problem: WSFL (Web Services Flow Language), XLANG (Web Services for Business Process Design) and BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), to name a few. Among them, the one with the most traction is without a doubt BPEL, in part due to its backing not only from major industry vendors, but also from boutique shops specializing in service-oriented architectures. But while BPEL provides the semantics and depth to orchestrate elaborate Web services scenarios, it's still relegated to a niche status confined to the services world. If you ponder the aspect of creating workflows strictly from services, you will arrive at the very realistic conclusion that workflows in many enterprises require the integration of non-serviceable legacy applications or even non-system human tasks, workflows that would fall beyond the scope of BPEL or any other orchestration technique currently applicable to SOA. In light of this last possibility comes Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) .
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On the relationship between Web Services Security and traditional protocols

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/bill.roscoe/publications/104.pdf

[May 2, 2005] XML and Web Services security specifications define elements to incorporate security tokens within a SOAP message. We propose a method for mapping such messages to an abstract syntax in the style of Dolev-Yao, and in particular Casper notation. We show that this translation preserves flaws and attacks. Therefore we provide a way for all the methods, and specifically Casper and FDR, that have been developed in the last decade by the theoretical community for the analysis of cryptographic protocols to be used for analysing WS-Security protocols. Finally, we demonstrate how this technique can be used to prove properties and discover attacks upon a proposed Microsoft WS-SecureConversation protocol.
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Mobile Web Services: A New Agent-Based Framework

http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2006/06&file=w3bener.xml&xsl=article.xsl&

May/June 2006. Mobile devices and server applications often run on different platforms, which can make integration problematic. Web services might offer a solution, but they typically include XML protocols that are too “heavy” for mobile devices. The authors’ proposed framework is designed to adapt Web services to mobile environments by using mobile agents to enable the development of high-performance Web service applications.
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Web Services and the Microsoft Platform

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/wsmsplatform.asp

[June 2006] Summary: This whitepaper provides a high-level overview of Microsoft support for Web services across its product offerings. Microsoft interoperability efforts and involvement in the Web services standardization process are also discussed. (47 printed pages)
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Enabling flexible distributed business processes with SOA - an illustration

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1197712,00.html

Service-oriented architectures holds the promise to radically change business processes by replacing tightly coupled proprietary interfaces and data formats with standards-based reusable business interfaces. Conventional business processes and roles tend to be defined within company boundaries and focus on managing activities with the help of information available in tightly coupled enterprise information systems like ERP. In traditional systems, even the applications that ideally required loose coupling such as SCM and CRM were also built to be hardwired to the existing ERP suite. The resulting system architecture offered efficiency, security and predictability, but at the same time took away flexibility and hence any scope of evolution of the process concerned.
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6 out of 10 stars

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Understanding Web Services Policy

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/understwspol.asp

Understanding Web Services Policy is an introductory description of the Web Services Policy language. This document describes the policy language features using numerous examples. The associated Web Services Policy Framework and Web Services Policy Attachment specifications provide the complete normative description of the Web Services Policy language.
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ASPs: The Integration Challenge

http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=400

Tips for integrating with application service providers using Web services.
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Eclipse targets Web services with Callisto release

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1197067,00.html

While most organization were winding down for a long Fourth of July weekend, the staff at the Eclipse Foundation rushed around this past Friday to load servers with 10 downloadable open source projects, including new Web services tools. "We're running around worried because we're a couple of hours late," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation. "Microsoft should be so lucky."
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Web Services Are Not A Panacea For Interoperability

http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/article/psecom,id,97,srn,1,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html

Interoperability is not a given when using Web services. It requires research, thought, and a good understanding of the issues surrounding the various Web services specifications.
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4 out of 10 stars

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BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development

http://www.packtpub.com/BPEL_SOA/book

Book published by Packt Publishing in June 2006. Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and web services orchestration. Real-world BPEL recipes for SOA integration and Composite Application development. Combining business process management and web services orchestration. Authors: Matjaz Juric, Stany Blanvalet, Jeremy Bolie, Michael Cardella, Sean Carey, Praveen Chandran, Yves Coene, Kevin Geminiuc, Arun Poduval, Lawrence Pravin, Jerry Thomas, Doug Todd, The Hoa Nguyen, Markus Zirn, Harish Gaur
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8 out of 10 stars

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Going Down To The Crossroads

http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2006/03/18/20235.aspx

Don Box of Microsoft makes a response to Darryl Plummer's Web Services at a Crossroads.
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WS-Crossroads

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/03/16/WS-Gartner

Tim Bray's comments on Web Services at a Crossroads by Daryl Plummer
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Perfect Partner for Web Services: Getting to Know XForms

http://it.sys-con.com/read/190433.htm

Find out about XForms and why they are the perfect partner for Web Services. By Craig Caulfield, Mar. 6, 2006
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10 out of 10 stars

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Inducing Behavioral Adaptations Within Web Services

http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/183955.htm

Web services have evolved from plain application-integration enablers to value-added stand-alone functionality providers such as getting a quote to a comprehensive business function like processing orders. Enterprises are exploiting this new revenue model by offering such business functions as services on usage basis. Information sharing instances such as Amazon's e-commerce services have helped in the creation of new powerful solutions using business functions as services. By Naveen Kulkarni; Manivannan Gopalan; Geo Philips Kuravakal; Lipika Sahoo; Sunny Saxena, in SOA Web Services Journal, February 27, 2006.
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XFire- Open source, high performance SOAP

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/XFIRE/Home

The Codehaus XFire team is proud to announce their 1.0 release! XFire is an open source Java SOAP framework built on a high performance, streaming XML model. XFire includes support for web service standards, an easy to use API, Spring integration, JBI support, and plugable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans. XFire 1.0 includes support for WSDL 1.1, SOAP 1.1 and 1.2, WS-Addressing, WS-I Basic Profile 1; Pluggable bindings for POJOs, XMLBeans, JAXB 1.1, JAXB 2.0, and Castor support; Support for many different transports - HTTP, JMS, XMPP, In-JVM, etc.; Spring, Pico, Plexus, Loom, and Yan support; JBI Support; Embeddable and Intuitive API; Client and server stub generation; and JSR 181 2.0 API to configure services via Java 5 and 1.4 (Commons attributes JSR 181 syntax).
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2 out of 10 stars

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Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other's Toys

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/02/15/jython-soap-interface-to-rest.html

It's tremendously difficult to argue a RESTful approach to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), when the corporate mindshare is SOAP--where project stakeholders tout the SOA buzzword, nod their heads sagely when you say SOAP, nod their heads again when you say XML-RPC, and then look blankly when you mention REST. At an official level, it seems that for the IBMs, Suns, Microsofts, and Oracles (et al) of this world, REST isn't even on the radar; perhaps more because they would find it difficult to build a commercial strategy around something that is based on simplicity and standards (like HTTP) that have been around for years, than from a true lack of visibility at the coalface.
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oXygen XML, Schema Editor, XSLT/XQuery Debugger and Profiler

http://www.oxygenxml.com

Oxygen is a multi-platform XML Editor, XSLT/XQuery Debugger and Profiler written in Java. It supports XML, XSL, XQUERY, FO, XSD, RNG, RNC,NRL, DTD, Schematron, WSDL and CSS documents. It offers a powerful and intelligent code insight that guides the user to write valid XML content. The code insight can be driven by a DTD, an XML schema, an Relax NG schema or by the structure of a partial edited document. It has FOP and full Unicode support.
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What's the GIF?

http://www.webservicespipeline.com/163703124

The Achilles' heel of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) has been policy enforcement. A standard is emerging for run-time control: the Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF). Web Services Pipeline, 1 June 2005.
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