I have recently been inundated with questions about the design of message formats. While these questions vary from techniques for XML extensibility to issues about how to create common elements for messaging standards. Underlying all of these questions is a basic challenge: Creating a common set of shared services requires a common information model. We [...]
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SOA.. and the data is still hard
January 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Where is Waldo? Or more precisely, where is WS-*?
October 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Our SOA surveys show that the vast majority of services in production today (over 80%) are WS-* services. This means that they have a WSDL descriptor, and at least in theory they can be invoked via SOAP over HTTP. In reality, many of them use commercial middleware or ESB message transports. However, nearly every discussion [...]