Java Web Services and XML FeaturesItems from java.net's Java Web Services and XML community homepage.Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit- June 1, 2007 Service component architecture (SCA) is a good thing, right Isn't it supposed to elevate SOA-ish things above Java and all that other those other bothersome languages with their own protocols, complexities, and latency issues Well, some analysts out there have professed that SCA has, well, issues. David Chappell, for one, says SCA proponents link their approach to SOA, but SCA is not necessarily about SOA. 'Talking about SCA and SOA in the same breath is at best confusing. At worst, it's...http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=889 Enable REST with Web services, Part 1: REST and Web services in WSDL 2.0- June 1, 2007 For clients to interact with remotely hosted resources, REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is fast becoming an alternative for Web services, especially because REST doesn't require users to understand and use SOAP. There are ongoing debates as to which one is better suited in today's highly interactive environment. However, recent efforts, including Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0, have tried to give Web services the ability to benefit from REST and use REST concepts. The HTTP..http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-rest1/?S_TACT=105AGX04&S_CMP=... Syclo Accepted into the IBM SOA Specialty- June 1, 2007 Syclo, a leading provider of mobile technology, announced today its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, Syclo's Agentry mobile platform integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/cmmsblog/syclo_accepted_into_the_ibm_soa_specialty/ Woodstox in Glassfish v2- June 1, 2007 Starting with GF v2 b49, Woodstox is now integrated as part of Glassfish along with sjsxp so that users have the benefit of additional performance improvements which woodstox provides. SJSXP is the default parser in glassfish. This is a preliminary integration with Woodstox and testing is still in progress so let us know if you run into issues. Here is some more information from Santiago regarding Woodstox in his blog Woodstox rocks Glassfish v2http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bhaktimehta/archive/2007/06/woodstox_in_gla_1.html How to notify JavaBlogs.com about blog updates with XML-RPC- June 1, 2007 Javablogs supports notification of blog updates with a remote API, which enables new blog post to appear on Javablogs immediately (javablogs API). I use blogger and as far as I can tell it doesn't support pinging javablogs.com. So i set out to write my own XML-RPC client to make my posts appear quickly (Yes I'm the impatient type).http://livingtao.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-notify-javablogscom-about-blog.html Still looking for the silver bullet- June 1, 2007 Peter Lacey talks about how one could use Atom as a general envelope structure for any kind of transactional interactions, including executing an order. Of course that is possible. Its also possible to replace CORBA with SOAP. The question is whether that's the intelligent thing to do. Just because one can have message level security in Atom that doesn't mean Atom+APP is suddenly better than SOAP as a generic envelope for messaging. Do I sense a bit of NIH there ;-)http://www.bloglines.com/blog/sanjiva?id=222 XStream 1.2.2 released- June 1, 2007 The XStream Development Team is proud to present XStream 1.2.1. XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. This is a maintenance release of XStream that contains a lot of bug fixes and has some minor highlightshttp://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/001582_xstream_122_released.html W3C EXI Performance Testing Framework- June 1, 2007 The W3C Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Performance Testing Framework is now publicly available for download. This is the testing framework used by the EXI WG to evaluate properties of "binary XML" candidates. Specifically, the framework can be used to measure Processing Efficiency and Compactness, and includes support for in-memory and network testing.http://weblogs.java.net/blog/spericas/archive/2007/06/w3c_exi_perform.html Making Sense of all these Crazy Web Service Standards- June 1, 2007 It has been eight years now since SOAP and WSDL (Web Service Description Language) were introduced as standards to facilitate communication and data exchange between heterogeneous systems. Since then, a flurry of protocols, collectively named WS, have also been introduced as extensions to SOAP (and in some cases WSDL) to facilitate specific communication requirements and scenarios. The categories of WS are broad, and it has reached a point where the sheer number of standards is so great that...http://www.infoq.com/articles/ws-standards-wcf-bustamante IBM defacto SOA leader- June 1, 2007 IBM leads the SOA process engine and collaboration component license services and maintenance markets with 53% share, gaining on Microsoft, Oracle and SAP which all have single digit participation in the markets in 2006. The strength of the IBM middleware line is what made the SOA engine markets grow, giving increased productivity from automated process at every level of the channel and supply chain. The following PDF press release contains more details.http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00027269.html |