Java Web Services and XML FeaturesItems from java.net's Java Web Services and XML community homepage.Exploring ESB patterns- July 31, 2007 The article gives a practical introduction into development with Mule, a popular open source messaging framework. First, we will briefly overview Enterprise Service Bus concepts and will provide an introduction to the Mule programming model. Next, we present an example employing the Routing Slip pattern, as described in Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, and demonstrate how this example can be implemented using Mule framework. We will walk through the relevant Mule.http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/07/31/exploring-esb-patterns-with-mule.html Encouraging SOA reuse- July 24, 2007 Today there is no shortage of articles, case studies, and analyst research concerning service oriented architecture (SOA), discussing the benefits of exposing existing IT capabilities as services and reusing these services to create composite applications. However, in their articulation, they are missing how these benefits will be useful to the ultimate end user, i.e. business analysts. Since SOA projects are all about business and IT alignments, support from these business end users is a key...http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/07/24/soa-reusability-shrinking-lag-time.html XQuery and Data Abstraction- July 13, 2007 In his most recent column Kurt Cagle explains the utility of XQuery for increased data abstraction and why XQuery is XPath plus some useful missing bits.http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/07/12/xquery-and-data-abstraction.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169&... Project Tango: An Overview- July 11, 2007 This article provides an overview of Project Tango, an open source implementation from Sun Microsystems of the key enterprise Web services specifications, commonly known as WS-, that provides interoperability with .NET 3.0.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techtarget/tsscom/home/~3/132637392/thread.tss XML Pipeline Language: Working Draft- July 7, 2007 The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language . Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents.http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070706/ |