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First there was WS-*, now we have REST-*

why include M$?The history shown that any M$ involment with standards was detrimmental to the industry.I agree. I just think this is a new blogger that 'don't know how it works' NTRE: First there was WS-*, now we have REST-*Joe:if you think about it, REST is the perfect distributed object...

Tags: CORBA, Middleware, Enterprise software, REST-*, WS-*

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Is social media accelerating a move from SOAP to REST?

Is REST eclipsing SOAP Web services as the standard of choice, as we move toward service-orienting our enterprises? Is the Web 2.0 social media accelerating this trend? What does this all mean for enterprise SOA? 'Thousands of Web applications are being built on RESTful Web services, versus...

Tags: Social Media, Microsoft Corp., Simple Object Access Protocol, REST, WS-*, SOAP, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-01

Will Web 2.0 displace the WS-* protocols?

Will Web 2.0 displace the WS-* protocols?of course notWeb 2.0 and WS-* protocols solve different problems, so I don't see how they could be substituted for each other. The concept of merging these worlds together is a much better view. These two views can benefit from each other,...

Tags: Channel management, WS-* protocol, WS-*, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2007-07-17

The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1

It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...

Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*

Blog posts 2007-05-17

A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups

Ive just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating to see the differences...

Tags: ATOM, Badges, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis, WS-*

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0

One of the most consistent trends on the Internet is the rise of open APIs and the applications built on top of them, known as mashups. Programmable Web currently lists over 300 APIs that can be used for everything from building Web sites on top of Google Maps to...

Tags: Web 2.0, Business Models, SaaS, Mashups, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Business Process Management, Governance, Collaboration, WS-*, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Social Software, Web services, Ajax, JSON, SOAP, RSS, ATOM, REST, Social Networking, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Are WS-splat specs like SUVs?

Loek Bakker always comes up with some very catchy metaphors for SOA technologies (remember the ESB as a "one-day fly"?), and has come up with another good one for the WS-* (or WS-splat) set of specs: they are the sport utility vehicles SUVs of the information superhighway. Mike Champion...

Tags: SUV, Loek Bakker, Simple Object Access Protocol, WS-*

Blog posts 2006-06-06

What's wrong with SOA being 'enterprisey'?

A new word has entered our lexicon: 'enterprisey,' which is being applied to SOA. Is this a word with positive or negative connotations? (Wikipedia defines it as a "derogatory" term.) Tim Bray Sun agrees that being enterprisey is not a good thing, and recently made the charge that SOA/WS-splat is...

Tags: Anne Thomas Manes, SOA, WS-*

Blog posts 2006-05-10

InfoCard and Web Services

Over at the IT Garage, Doc Searls goes through some history of Microsoft's InfoCard initiative and asks some good questions. InfoCard is an identity metasystem that Doc correctly describes as a "barn raising project" led by Microsoft. Kim Cameron, Microsoft's chief identity architect, believes that Microsoft has an...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., InfoCard, SoaP, Microsoft Windows CardSpace

Blog posts 2005-06-06

InfoCard and Web Services

Over at the IT Garage, Doc Searls goes through some history of Microsoft's InfoCard initiative and asks some good questions. InfoCard is an identity metasystem that Doc correctly describes as a "barn raising project" led by Microsoft. Kim Cameron, Microsoft's chief identity architect, believes that Microsoft has an...

Tags: InfoCard, Microsoft Corp., SoaP, Microsoft Windows CardSpace

Blog posts 2005-06-06

Converging federation standards?

Key members of the federated identity specification and standards gangs—OASIS, Liberty Alliance and the IBM/Microsoft led WS-* --met at Digital ID World 2005 today to discuss their different approaches to deriving specifications and the possibility of convergence.Moderator Mike Neuenschwander of the Burton Group tried to locate any sensitive areas among...

Tags: specification, standards, George Goodman, Shewchuk, John Shewchuk

Blog posts 2005-05-11

Around the Digital ID World

Digital ID World host and editor Phil Becker kicked off the conference asserting that digital identity is the common organizing principle for integration, management and security. Without a core focus on identity management, the notion of distributed, networked computing and service-oriented architecture falls apart. "As perimeters dissolve, applications get ever...

Tags: Liberty Alliance, identity management

Blog posts 2004-10-26

The enterprise service bus--a ride you shouldn't miss

The enterprise service bus--a ride you shouldn't missWho is riding the bus today?This all sounds fine from the vendors themselves, but what enterprises are using these layers today? Is this hype, or are there real examples of implementations?What sort of background do these ZDNet Journalists have?What sort of professional, technical...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web services, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, RE:What, Enterprise Service Bus, SOA, WS-*

Discussion threads 2004-07-26