Middleware MattersSteve Vinoski's WeblogOne More Thing- October 20, 2006 I don't disagree with what Mark is saying about interface generality, but I do disagree that REST and SOA can be compared like that, since a SOA can be REST-based.http://blogs.iona.com/vinoski/archives/000393.html Booch on snakes and SOA- October 16, 2006 Grady Booch talks about SOA: "Snake Oil-oriented Architecture." :-) Well worth the read. Here's my favorite paragraph: "Having said that, there follow a multitude of hard technical and process decisions that must be made, which the Snake Oil-oriented Architecture showmen often neglect to tell you about: what distinguishes a good service from a bad one what should the granularity of a service be when should I offer up a stateless service versus a stateful one as for the stateful ones, how to...http://blogs.iona.com/vinoski/archives/000390.html JAOO Rules, Again- October 10, 2006 Imagine if your day job is writing software, writing documentation, or running a software company, and in your "spare time" you planned and executed an absolutely killer technical conference that every year for a full decade has gotten rave reviews from pretty much everyone who's attended. Sound far-fetched Perhaps it is, which is why, as Ted Neward so rightfully says, the organizers of JAOO should be knighted or something. Once again this year, they put together one of the best technical...http://blogs.iona.com/vinoski/archives/000383.html JAOO SOA Track- October 3, 2006 On the first day of the JAOO conference (with over 1000 attendees this year!), after Werner's excellent keynote about the Amazon.com technology platform (which, BTW, is service-oriented), Gregor Hohpe hosted the SOA Track. He opened the track with a quick yet deep overview of SOA -- probably the most useful introduction to SOA I've ever heard. Following Gregor's introduction, I gave my talk on dynamic languages and SOA. For better or worse, SOA is often associated with large and sometimes...http://blogs.iona.com/vinoski/archives/000380.html |