Web services and the web ecosystem- May 16, 2002 Adam Bosworth gave a whirlwind tour of BEA's WebLogic Workshop. After the obligatory Hello World, he dived into the good stuff. Cajun (I'll still call it that, for brevity) takes the web services mantra of loose coupling very seriously. It separates interfaces from implementations by generating XML grammars, called maps. In a nutshell, your map abstracts away from member variables in implementation code. An element in the map, say <PERSON>, is not sensitive to changes in the names of...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/webServices/2002/05/16.html#a246 Linking to SOAP-exposed resources- May 2, 2002 Since the RESTRPCSOAP discussion flared up again, I've been looking for a single clear statement about what kind of problem may exist, and what to do about it. I found it in Paul Prescod's Google's Gaffe: The point that has not yet filtered through to the mainstream of web services implementors is that linking is just as important for machine-to-machine applications as it is for human-facing applications. If it is impossible to link to SOAP-exposed resources, then they are less powerful and...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/webServices/2002/05/02.html#a213 |